[...] 6243 was the uid I was using to filter the user I wanted.
As a way of information `ps' has some more options that might allow you to tailor more custom output that just `ps aux'.
For example if you want to kill any processes containing "a.out" for the user 6243:
As a "rule of thumb" anything that grep can do, awk can also achieve. So if you use awk, you most likely do not have to bother with another filter like grep.
There's also a very useful unix utility named `lsof' that can be handy when dealing with processes. If your system has it installed it is worthwhile to get familiar with it.
If you want to kill only the processes number of the program top that user 6243 has initiated.
-t: will output only the pid -u: user id or name -a: ANDing operator -c: command
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Reason: Adding meaning of flags
i have a very short file that has in it a line for a find command.
now, when i run this script and I kill the script later, using the ps -ef | grep scriptname. i noticed kill -9 kills the script itself but does not kill the internal find command that it gave birth to.
say theres a file... (0 Replies)
Hello,
ps -C a*
returns the list of the process I need to kill.
but
ps -C a* -o pid | kill
does not work and I can't get the syntax right.
Thanks for any help (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am new to Unix shell scripting. Can anyone of you tell me how to kill all the processes at a time for a particular user?(No listing the process ID of each process in the kill -9 command).
Thanks in Advance,
-Hary (5 Replies)
how to kill the processes of aperticular user?
because i have nearly 25000 process are there for perticular user. i need to kill.
Please provide the information?
Regards,
Rajesh (3 Replies)
Hi,
I read a set of processes with:
ps -eaf|grep oracleTRLV
The result is:
oracle 23253 1 0 15:14:11 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
oracle 23301 1 0 15:15:07 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
oracle 22914 1 0 15:11:19 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
How to I kill the "oracleTRLV" ones? Is there... (17 Replies)
Hi,
How to kill the processes running under ptree ?
I am noticing lot of processes running under ptree with ssh ? I tried to kill with -9 option which is not working ?
Thanks,
Radhika. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing korn shell script. My requirement is, i have to kill the parent process and all of its child processes. Can some one please help me on this?
Thanks in advance for your help.. (1 Reply)
for i in 'ps -f | grep textedit'
do
kill $i
done
I wrote this but it wont work.
I am trying to find processes and kill them.
Any help would be welcome. (1 Reply)
Want to kill multiple processes by name. for the example below, I want to kill all 'proxy-stagerd_copy' processes.
I tried this but didn't work:
>> ps -ef|grep proxy_copy
root 991 986 0 14:45:34 ? 0:04 proxy-stagerd
root 1003 991 0 14:45:49 ? 0:01... (2 Replies)
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killall
KILLALL(1) User Commands KILLALL(1)NAME
killall - kill processes by name
SYNOPSIS
killall [-Z,--context pattern] [-e,--exact] [-g,--process-group] [-i,--interactive] [-q,--quiet] [-r,--regexp] [-s,--signal signal]
[-u,--user user] [-v,--verbose] [-w,--wait] [-I,--ignore-case] [-V,--version] [--] name ...
killall -l
killall -V,--version
DESCRIPTION
killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent.
Signals can be specified either by name (e.g. -HUP or -SIGHUP ) or by number (e.g. -1) or by option -s.
If the command name is not regular expression (option -r) and contains a slash (/), processes executing that particular file will be
selected for killing, independent of their name.
killall returns a zero return code if at least one process has been killed for each listed command, or no commands were listed and at least
one process matched the -u and -Z search criteria. killall returns non-zero otherwise.
A killall process never kills itself (but may kill other killall processes).
OPTIONS -e, --exact
Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be unavailable (i.e.
it is swapped out). In this case, killall will kill everything that matches within the first 15 characters. With -e, such entries
are skipped. killall prints a message for each skipped entry if -v is specified in addition to -e,
-I, --ignore-case
Do case insensitive process name match.
-g, --process-group
Kill the process group to which the process belongs. The kill signal is only sent once per group, even if multiple processes belong-
ing to the same process group were found.
-i, --interactive
Interactively ask for confirmation before killing.
-l, --list
List all known signal names.
-q, --quiet
Do not complain if no processes were killed.
-r, --regexp
Interpret process name pattern as an extended regular expression.
-s, --signal
Send this signal instead of SIGTERM.
-u, --user
Kill only processes the specified user owns. Command names are optional.
-v, --verbose
Report if the signal was successfully sent.
-V, --version
Display version information.
-w, --wait
Wait for all killed processes to die. killall checks once per second if any of the killed processes still exist and only returns if
none are left. Note that killall may wait forever if the signal was ignored, had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie
state.
-Z, --context
(SELinux Only) Specify security context: kill only processes having security context that match with given expended regular expres-
sion pattern. Must precede other arguments on the command line. Command names are optional.
FILES
/proc location of the proc file system
KNOWN BUGS
Killing by file only works for executables that are kept open during execution, i.e. impure executables can't be killed this way.
Be warned that typing killall name may not have the desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
killall -w doesn't detect if a process disappears and is replaced by a new process with the same PID between scans.
If processes change their name, killall may not be able to match them correctly.
AUTHORS
Werner Almesberger <werner@almesberger.net> wrote the original version of psmisc. Since version 20 Craig Small <csmall@small.drop-
bear.id.au> can be blamed.
SEE ALSO kill(1), fuser(1), pgrep(1), pidof(1), pkill(1), ps(1), kill(2).
Linux 2007-08-09 KILLALL(1)