Killall

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The killall command kills processes by name of the command being run, alleviating the need to run ps to find the pid before issuing a kill command. Signals other than the KILL (a.k.a. SIGKILL) signal can also be sent.

Caution should be used on non-Linux systems, where killall may have a different behavior, like killing all processes attached to the current terminal.

Example

$ killall mozilla-bin

Kills a locked-up Mozilla browser.

Related commands

These all relate process control

  • kill - Kill processes by ID.
  • xkill - Force the X server to close connections from clients.
  • sleep - Delay the process calling this.
  • pkill - kill all processes matching given criteria
  • ps - list processes

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