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32 .Nd kill processes by name
46 utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid
49 By default, it will send a
51 signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the
56 The super-user is allowed to kill any process.
58 The options are as follows:
59 .Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
61 Be more verbose about what will be done.
64 option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be
65 printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been
68 Use the effective user ID instead of the (default) real user ID for matching
69 processes specified with the
73 Give a help on the command usage and exit.
75 List the names of the available signals and exit, like in
80 as a (case sensitive) regular expression against the names
83 This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process
84 running under the real UID of the caller.
86 Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.
88 Send a different signal instead of the default
90 The signal may be specified either as a name
91 (with or without a leading
95 Kill processes in the jail specified by
98 Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to
102 Limit potentially matching processes to those running on
110 flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching
115 This should not have any effect except to print a few error messages
116 if there are zombie processes that match the specified pattern.
119 Sending a signal to all processes with uid
121 is already supported by
125 for this job (e.g.\& $ kill -TERM -1 or
126 as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>)
130 command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status
131 of 2 in case of a command error.
132 A status of 1 will be returned if
133 either no matching process has been found or not all processes have
134 been signalled successfully.
135 Otherwise, a status of 0 will be
138 Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
151 It has been modeled after the
153 command as available on other platforms.
158 program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
159 .An Wolfram Schneider ,
160 this manual page has been written by
162 The current version of
164 was rewritten in C by