opendarwin man page for killall

KILLALL(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						KILLALL(1)

NAME
     killall -- kill processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     killall [-d | -v] [-h | -?] [-help] [-l] [-m] [-s] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname] [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]

DESCRIPTION
     Killall kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid as done by kill(1).  By default, it will send a TERM signal to
     all processes with a real UID identical to the caller of killall that match the name procname.  The super-user is allowed to kill any
     process.

     The options are as follows:

	   -d | -v     Be more verbose about what will be done.  For a single -d option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will
		       be printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been found.

	   -h | -?

	   -help       Give a help on the command usage and exit.

	   -l	       List the names of the available signals and exit, like in kill(1).

	   -m	       Match the argument procname as a (case insensitive) regular expression against the names of processes found.  CAUTION!
		       This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process running under the real UID of the caller.

	   -s	       Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.

	   -SIGNAL     Send a different signal instead of the default TERM.  The signal may be specified either as a name (with or without a lead-
		       ing SIG), or numerically.

	   -u user     Limit potentially matching processes to those belonging to the specified user.

	   -t tty      Limit potentially matching processes to those running on the specified tty.

	   -c procname
		       When used with the -u or -t flags, limit potentially matching processes to those matching the specified progname.

ALL PROCESSES
     Sending a signal to all processes with uid XYZ is already supported by kill(1).  So use kill(1) for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or as root
     $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>)

DIAGNOSTICS
     The killall command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status of 2 in case of a command error.  A status of 1 will be
     returned if either no matching process has been found or not all processes have been signalled successfully.  Otherwise, a status of 0 will
     be returned.

     Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by -d options.

SEE ALSO
     kill(1), sysctl(3)

HISTORY
     The killall command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.  It has been modeled after the killall command as available on other platforms.

AUTHORS
     The killall program was originally written in Perl and was contributed by Wolfram Schneider, this manual page has been written by Jorg
     Wunsch.  The current version of killall was rewritten in C by Peter Wemm using sysctl(3).

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								   June 25, 1995							       BSD