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32 .Nd kill processes by name
50 utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid
53 By default, it will send a
55 signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the
60 The super-user is allowed to kill any process.
62 The options are as follows:
63 .Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
65 Be more verbose about what will be done. For a single
67 option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be
68 printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been
72 Give a help on the command usage and exit.
74 List the names of the available signals and exit, like in
79 as a (case insensitive) regular expression against the names
81 CAUTION! This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process
82 running under the real UID of the caller.
84 Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.
86 Send a different signal instead of the default
88 The signal may be specified either as a name
89 (with or without a leading
93 Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to
97 Limit potentially matching processes to those running on
105 flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching
110 This should not have any effect except to print a few error messages
111 if there are zombie processes that match the specified pattern.
114 Sending a signal to all processes with uid
116 is already supported by
120 for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or
121 as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>)
125 command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status
126 of 2 in case of a command error. A status of 1 will be returned if
127 either no matching process has been found or not all processes have
128 been signalled successfully. Otherwise, a status of 0 will be
131 Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
142 It has been modeled after the
144 command as available on other platforms.
149 program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
150 .An Wolfram Schneider ,
151 this manual page has been written by
153 The current version of
155 was rewritten in C by