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32 .Nd kill processes by name
49 utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid
52 By default, it will send a
54 signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the
59 The super-user is allowed to kill any process.
61 The options are as follows:
62 .Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
64 Be more verbose about what will be done. For a single
66 option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be
67 printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been
71 Give a help on the command usage and exit.
73 List the names of the available signals and exit, like in
78 as a (case insensitive) regular expression against the names
80 CAUTION! This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process
81 running under the real UID of the caller.
83 Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.
85 Send a different signal instead of the default
87 The signal may be specified either as a name
88 (with or without a leading
92 Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to
96 Limit potentially matching processes to those running on
104 flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching
109 Sending a signal to all processes with uid
111 is already supported by
115 for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or
116 as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>)
120 command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status
121 of 2 in case of a command error. A status of 1 will be returned if
122 either no matching process has been found or not all processes have
123 been signalled successfully. Otherwise, a status of 0 will be
126 Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
137 It has been modeled after the
139 command as available on other platforms.
144 program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
145 .An Wolfram Schneider ,
146 this manual page has been written by
148 The current version of
150 was rewritten in C by