How do I kill this tomcat process in Terminal?

There is no need to know Tomcat's pid (process ID) to kill it. You can use the following command to kill Tomcat:

pkill -9 -f tomcat

ps -ef | grep tomcat | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

https://gist.github.com/nrshrivatsan/1d2ea4fcdcb9d1857076

Part 1

ps -ef | grep tomcat => Get all processes with tomcat grep

Part 2

Once we have process details, we pipe it into the part 2 of the script

awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 => Get the second column [Process id] and kill them with -9 option

Hope this helps.

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