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KILLALL !!!KILLALL NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS FILES KNOWN BUGS AUTHORS SEE ALSO ---- !!NAME killall - kill processes by name !!SYNOPSIS __killall__ [[__-e__,__--exact__] [[__-g__,__--process-group__] [[__-i__,__--interactive__] [[__-q__,__--quiet__] [[__-v__,__--verbose__] [[__-w__,__--wait__] [[__-V,__--version__]__ [[__-s__,__--signal__ ''signal''] [[__--__] ''name ...''__ killall__ -l__ killall__ -V,__--version__ !!DESCRIPTION __killall__ sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent. Signals can be specified either by name (e.g. __-HUP__) or by number (e.g. __-1__). If the command name contains a slash (__/__), processes executing that particular file will be selected for killing, independent of their name. __killall__ returns a non-zero return code if no process has been killed for any of the listed commands. If at least one process has been killed for each command, __killall__ returns zero. A __killall__ process never kills itself (but may kill other __killall__ processes). !!OPTIONS __-e__, __--exact__ Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be unavailable (i.e. it is swapped out). In this case, __killall__ will kill everything that matches within the first 15 characters. With __-e__, such entries are skipped. __killall__ prints a message for each skipped entry if __-v__ is specified in addition to __-e__, __-g__, __--process-group__ Kill the process group to which the process belongs. The kill signal is only sent once per group, even if multiple processes belonging to the same process group were found. __-i__, __--interactive__ Interactively ask for confirmation before killing. __-l__, __--list__ List all known signal names. __-q__, __--quiet__ Do not complain if no processes were killed. __-v__, __--verbose__ Report if the signal was successfully sent. __-V__, __--version__ Display version information. __-w__, __--wait__ Wait for all killed processes to die. __killall__ checks once per second if any of the killed processes still exist and only returns if none are left. Note that __killall__ may wait forever if the signal was ignored, had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie state. !!FILES /proc location of the proc file system !!KNOWN BUGS Killing by file only works for executables that are kept open during execution, i.e. impure executables can't be killed this way. Be warned that typing __killall__ ''name'' may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user. __killall -w__ doesn't detect if a process disappears and is replaced by a new process with the same PID between scans. !!AUTHORS Werner Almesberger !!SEE ALSO kill(1), fuser(1), pgrep(1), pidof(1), ps(1), kill(2) ----
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