How to stop tor from Mac terminal?

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I use Tor with Safari on Mac.

Once it is installed and configured, there are two ways to start it:

  • Using the brew services start tor command
  • Using the tor command

In the former case, I can always stop it using the brew services stop tor command. But how to stop it in the latter case, given that I already closed the current terminal session, and therefore Control-C won’t help?

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There should be a killall command on MacOS.

So killall tor or killall -9 tor should force your tor to stop.

If you have multiple instances running you can check with ps -jef or ps -jef | grep tor which are running and then use kill $PID or kill -9 $PID where $PID matches your process you want to end.