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How to close Android Studio using terminal in Ubuntu

I'm Ubuntu & Android beginner. I need help to close Android Studio using the terminal or a solution to resolve the error which is shown in this image:

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Solution 
  • pkill java

    Is the easiest one.

    EDIT

    Many people have made use of the command above, however, there is a drawback to using it: All Java applications running as your user will be killed.

    To fix this, I've made a oneliner which will kill one Android Studio instance. This may or may not work on your particular system but is a better solution than the one mentioned above if it happens to work for you.

    ps -eo pid,cmd | grep -Ev "^ {0,1}([0-9]*) grep.*" | grep -E 'java.*android-studio' | sed -re 's/ {0,1}([0-9]*) .*/\1/' | head -n1 | xargs kill -9

    This will search for java.*android-studio in the commands of your process list and kill the associated process using its PID.