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Old 01-29-2013
Kill all proceess with the name XXX
Hello guys,

I have a problem. How can i "kill -9" with the name process? I have a lot of process with the same name, but i do not want kill each one with the process ID. There is a comand to "kill -9" al process with name "XXXX".

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 01-29-2013
Have a look at the pkill manpage.
# 3  
Old 01-29-2013
Have a look if the command killall is available on your system.
Btw. kill -9 is a very bad idea and stopping lots of processes ungracefully without an opportunity for them to clean up before they die may cause trouble.
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Old 01-29-2013
.. unless you are on HP-UX where killall means something quite different:

Code:
 DESCRIPTION
      killall is a procedure used by /usr/sbin/shutdown to kill all active
      processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure.

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Old 01-29-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Xedrox
Hello guys,

I have a problem. How can i "kill -9" with the name process? I have a lot of process with the same name, but i do not want kill each one with the process ID. There is a comand to "kill -9" al process with name "XXXX".

Thanks!
If you don't find any external command (pkill/killall), its so simple to have a loop or with the commands like xargs or similar.
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Old 01-30-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Xedrox
Hello guys,

I have a problem. How can i "kill -9" with the name process? I have a lot of process with the same name, but i do not want kill each one with the process ID. There is a comand to "kill -9" al process with name "XXXX".

Thanks!
Try:

Code:
kill -9 $( pidof XXXX )

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