Mac OS X in a Nutshell

Name

killall

Synopsis

killall [options] procname ...

Kills processes specified by command or pattern match. The default signal sent by killall is TERM but may be specified on the command line. killall assembles and executes a set of kill commands to accomplish its task.

Options

-d

Prints diagnostic info only about targeted processes; does not send signal.

-l

Lists known signal names.

-m

Interprets the procname as a case-insensitive regular expression for selecting real process names to send a signal to.

-s

Shows the kill command lines that would be used to send the signal but do not actually execute them.

- signal

Sends specified signal to process. signal may be a name (see -l option) or number.

-t tty

May be used to further select only those processes attached to the specified tty (procname ∩ tty), or to select all processes attached to the specified tty (i.e., no procname specified).

-u user

May be used to further select only those processes owned by the specified user (procname ∩ user), or to select all processes owned by the specified user (i.e., no procname specified).

-c procname

Use with the -t or -u options to limit processes that sent a signal to those matching procname.

-v

Verbose output. Print the kill command lines that are used to send the signal.