vita

vita (from Latin vita — life) is a unified process management tool for listing, inspecting, and terminating running processes. It serves as the native Vesper Linux replacement for both GNU ps and kill.

When invoked via the kill symlink, it automatically switches to kill mode (sending SIGKILL).

Usage

vita [PATTERN...]
vita -t [-v] PID...
vita -k [-v] PID...
vita -9 [-v] PID...
kill [-v] PID...

Flags

• -t — send SIGTERM to gracefully terminate processes.
• -k — send SIGKILL to immediately kill processes.
• -9 — alias for -k for GNU compatibility.
• -v — verbose mode; prints confirmation for each signal sent.

Examples

List all running processes:

vita

Filter running processes by name or command line:

vita go

Send SIGTERM to terminate a process gracefully:

vita -t 1234

Force kill multiple processes with verbose output:

vita -k -v 1234 5678

Force kill using the standard kill symlink:

kill 1234