When I issue
ps aux | grep mtp I get
ubuntu-+ 15934 0.1 0.0 519848 7068 ? Sl 21:13 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-mtp --spawner :1.9 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/20 So the PID in this case is 15934. But every new time this is run the PID is different. Is there any other way to kill a process other than by PID?
32 Answers
You can use ps to find the PID of the process, then pass that to kill:
kill $(ps -C /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-mtp -o pid=) The -C flag specifies a command name to search for in the list of processes, and the -o pid= option means ps will print only the PID. The result is passed as the only argument to kill.
I issued
ps aux | grep mtp which gave me a few mtp related processes and compared with the camera mounted and unmounted to get the specific process
and then
pkill -9 gvfsd-mtp does the trick. But the supplied answer above I assume will also work!
