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Fkill cli

Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

From sindresorhus·Updated June 12, 2026·View on GitHub·

**fkill cli** is a Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2015. It has gained significant community traction with 6,990 stars and 211 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: cli, cli-app, cross-platform, fabulous, javascript.

Latest release: v9.0.0
November 9, 2025View Changelog →
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Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

Install

sh
npm install --global fkill-cli

Usage

$ fkill --help

	Usage
		$ fkill [<pid|name|:port> …]

	Options
		--force, -f                  Force kill
		--verbose, -v                Show process arguments
		--silent, -s                 Silently kill and always exit with code 0
		--force-timeout <N>, -t <N>  Force kill processes which didn't exit after N seconds
		--smart-case                 Case-insensitive unless pattern contains uppercase
		--case-sensitive             Force case-sensitive matching

	Examples
		$ fkill 1337
		$ fkill safari
		$ fkill :8080
		$ fkill 1337 safari :8080
		$ fkill

	To kill a port, prefix it with a colon. For example: :8080.

	Run without arguments to use the interactive interface.
	In interactive mode, 🚦n% indicates high CPU usage and 🐏n% indicates high memory usage.
	Supports fuzzy search in the interactive mode.

	The process name is case-insensitive by default.

Interactive UI

Run fkill without arguments to launch the interactive UI.

Contributors

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