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KILLALL(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual KILLALL(1) NAME killall -- kill processes by name SYNOPSIS killall [-d | -v] [-h | -?] [-help] [-l] [-m] [-s] [-z] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname] [-SIGNAL] [procname ...] DESCRIPTION The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid as done by kill(1). By default, it will send a TERM signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the caller of killall that match the name procname. The super-user is allowed to kill any process. The options are as follows: -d | -v Be more verbose about what will be done. For a single -d option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been found. -h | -? -help Give a help on the command usage and exit. -l List the names of the available signals and exit, like in kill(1). -m Match the argument procname as a (case insensitive) regular expression against the names of processes found. CAUTION! This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process running under the real UID of the caller. -s Show only what would be done, but do not send any sig- nal. -SIGNAL Send a different signal instead of the default TERM. The signal may be specified either as a name (with or without a leading SIG), or numerically. -u user Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to the specified user. -t tty Limit potentially matching processes to those running on the specified tty. -c procname When used with the -u or -t flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching the specified procname. -z Do not skip zombies. This should not have any effect except to print a few error messages if there are zom- bie processes that match the specified pattern. ALL PROCESSES Sending a signal to all processes with uid XYZ is already supported by kill(1). So use kill(1) for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>) DIAGNOSTICS The killall command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status of 2 in case of a command error. A status of 1 will be returned if either no matching process has been found or not all processes have been signalled successfully. Otherwise, a status of 0 will be returned. Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by -d options. SEE ALSO kill(1), sysctl(3) HISTORY The killall command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. It has been modeled after the killall command as available on other platforms. AUTHORS The killall program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by Wolfram Schneider, this manual page has been written by Jorg Wunsch. The current version of killall was rewritten in C by Peter Wemm using sysctl(3). FreeBSD 11.1 June 25, 1995 FreeBSD 11.1
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