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33 .Nd kill processes by name
51 utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid
54 By default, it will send a
56 signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the
61 The super-user is allowed to kill any process.
63 The options are as follows:
64 .Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
66 Do not print an error message if no matching processes are found.
68 Be more verbose about what will be done. For a single
70 option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be
71 printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been
75 Give a help on the command usage and exit.
77 List the names of the available signals and exit, like in
82 as a (case insensitive) regular expression against the names
84 CAUTION! This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process
85 running under the real UID of the caller.
87 Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.
89 Send a different signal instead of the default
91 The signal may be specified either as a name
92 (with or without a leading
96 Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to
100 Limit potentially matching processes to those running on
108 flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching
113 Sending a signal to all processes with uid
115 is already supported by
119 for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or
120 as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>)
124 command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status
125 of 2 in case of a command error. A status of 1 will be returned if
126 either no matching process has been found or not all processes have
127 been signalled successfully. Otherwise, a status of 0 will be
130 Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
141 It has been modeled after the
143 command as available on other platforms.
148 program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
149 .An Wolfram Schneider ,
150 this manual page has been written by
152 The current version of
154 was rewritten in C by