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Manpages KILLALLSection: User Commands (1)Updated: March 25, 2001 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEkillall - kill processes by nameSYNOPSISkillall [-e,--exact] [-g,--process-group] [-i,--interactive] [-q,--quiet] [-v,--verbose] [-w,--wait] [-V,--version] [-s,--signal signal] [--] name ...killall -l killall -V,--version DESCRIPTIONkillall 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
FILES/proc location of the proc file system KNOWN BUGSKilling 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. AUTHORSWerner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch> wrote the original version of psmisc. Since version 20 Craig Small <csmall@small.dropbear.id.au> can be blamed.SEE ALSOkill(1), fuser(1), pgrep(1), pidof(1), ps(1), kill(2)
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