# How to exit vim
Below are some simple methods for exiting vim.

## The simple way
Credit: @tomnomnom

```
:!ps axuw | grep vim | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
```

## The ps-less way
Credit: @tomnomnom

```
:!kill -9 $(find /proc -name "cmdline" 2>/dev/null | while read procfile; do if grep -Pa '^vim\x00' "$procfile" &>/dev/null; then echo $procfile; fi; done | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | sort -u)
```

## The ps-less way using status files
Credit: @hakluke

```
:!find /proc -name status | while read file; do echo "$file: "; cat $file | grep vim; done | grep -B1 vim | grep -v Name | while read line; do sed 's/^\/proc\///g' | sed 's/\/.*//g'; done | xargs kill -9
```

## The pythonic way
Credit: @hakluke

```
:py3 import os,signal;from subprocess import check_output;os.kill(int(check_output(["pidof","vim"]).decode
('utf-8')),signal.SIGTERM)
```

## The remote way
Credit: @eur0pa

In `vi`:
```
:%!( key="kill-vi-$RANDOM"; nc -l 8888 | if grep $key; then pgrep '^vi$' | xargs kill; fi; ) &
```

Remotely:
```
$ while true; do curl http://vi-host:8888/kill-vi-$RANDOM; done
```
`vi` will eventually exit

Locally (the cheaty, lazy way, why even bother):
```
$ curl "http://localhost:8888/$(ps aux | grep -E -o 'kill-vi-[0-9]+')"
```