To kill an evil process you have to find the process ID through top or ps, in short it's a long process.
I devised a way around this using embedded commands. Type the following into the terminal to get a kill that works on process names:
alias newkill 'kill `top -l1 | grep -i \!* | cut -c1-5`'The command outouts a log version of top that gets passed to grep that searches for the string you enter, cuts the first 5 characters, the PID and finally passes that to the kill command.
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