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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users killing a process pid Post 302098297 by pileofrogs on Friday 1st of December 2006 09:16:28 PM
Old 12-01-2006
The reason you can't just kill a process by the command name is that there may be multiple commands running with the same name. For example, If I'm logged in with bash, and Bob is also logged in with bash, and I try to kill "bash", which one will it kill?

If you want to kill every possible instance of a command with a certain name, "killall" is available on some systems.
 

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KILL(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   KILL(1)

NAME
kill, broke - print commands to kill processes SYNOPSIS
kill name broke DESCRIPTION
Kill prints commands that will cause all processes called name and owned by the current user to be terminated. Use the send command of 81/2(1), or pipe the output of kill into rc(1) to execute the commands. Kill suggests sending a kill note to the process; the same message delivered to the process's ctl file (see proc(3)) is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, but is necessary if the offending process is ignoring notes. Broke prints commands that will cause all processes in the Broken state and owned by the current user to go away. When a process dies because of an error caught by the system, it may linger in the Broken state to allow examination with a debugger. Executing the commands printed by broke lets the system reclaim the resources used by the broken processes. SOURCE
/rc/bin/kill /rc/bin/broke SEE ALSO
ps(1), stop(1), proc(3) KILL(1)
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