September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
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Name
killall
Synopsis
killall [options]names
Kill processes by command name. If more than one process is running the specified command, kill all of them. Treats command names that contain a / as files; kill all processes that are executing that file.
Options
- -e, --exact
Require an exact match to kill very long names (i.e., longer than 15 characters). Normally, killall kills everything that matches within the first 15 characters. With -e, such entries are skipped. (Use -v to print a message for each skipped entry.)
- -g, --process-group
Kill the process group to which the process belongs.
- -i, --interactive
Prompt for confirmation before killing processes.
- -I, --ignore-case
Ignore case when matching process names.
- -l, --list
List known signal names.
- -q, --quiet
Quiet; do not complain of processes not killed.
- -r, --regexp
Interpret process name as an extended regular expression.
- -s signal, --signal signal
Send signal to named processes. signal may be a name or a number. The most commonly used signal is 9, which terminates processes no matter what. The default signal is SIGTERM.
- -u user, --user user
Kill only processes owned by the specified user.
- -v, --verbose
Verbose; after killing process, report success and process ID.
- -V, --version
Print version information.
- -w, --wait
Wait for all killed processes to die. Note that killall may wait forever if the signal was ignored or had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie state.
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