- About killall : Kill processes by names
- It comes from “psmisc-22.6” package.
- Path: /usr/bin/killall
Examples:
1. To kill all the specified commands
| $ killall |
2. To list all known signals
| $ killall -l $ killall –list |
3. Do not complain if no processes were killed
| $ killall -q $ killall –quiet |
4. To send the specified signal instead of SIGTERM
| $ killall -s 9 bash $ killall –signal 9 bash |
5. To kill processes owned by particular user
| $ killall -u mike |
6. To set to verbose mode
| $ killall -v $ killall –verbose |
7. To display the version
| $ killall -V $ killall –version |
8. To specify to wait for all the killed processes to die
| $ killall -w $ killall –wait |
9. To kill processes with specified security context
| $ killall -Z $ killall –context |
Related Commands: kill, fuser, pgrep, pidof, pkill, ps, kill
