How to find and kill running Processes from within Java?

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I need a Java way to find a running OS process from which I know to name and path of the executable. I want to look whether it is running right now and I need a way to kill the process if I found it.

My Question is a similar to how-to-find-and-kill-running-win-processes-from-within-java but not restricted to windows.

Am I forced to do an implementation per platform or is there some trick/library/api I'm missing that can do this?

There seem to be some libraries mentioned here that might do what you are looking for: stackoverflow.com/questions/1192081/… — jcern
– jcern, Commented Jan 22, 2013 at 18:40

jtahlborn · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-22 18:43:13Z

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The SIGAR library has some pretty cool support for stuff like this. It has java APIs for listing and killing system processes.

answered Jan 22, 2013 at 18:43

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Aksel Willgert Over a year ago

Havnt had time to test it yet, but looks what im after

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