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Force Kill/Terminate All Adobe-Related Process and Apps in MacOS
#!/bin/sh
adobeProcessList=(
AdobeCRDaemon
AdobeIPCBroker
com.adobe.acc.installer.v2
CCXProcess
CCLibrary
'Adobe CEF Helper'
'Core Sync'
'Creative Cloud Helper'
'Adobe Desktop Service'
'Creative Cloud'
'Adobe Crash Processor'
CrashHelper
)
for processName in "${adobeProcessList[@]}"; do
pid=$(pgrep "$processName")
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "process not running, skipping: $processName"
continue
else
echo "killing pid(s) $pid of $processName"
fi
pkill -KILL -l "$processName"
done
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