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I'd like to terminate scripts.

These scripts are not by me, but other persons. These contain other programs such as ping, nmap, arp, etc.

If such a script is running, how can I terminate this script AND all processes called by this script?

These scripts are big so terminating all programs (pkill ping, pkill nmap etc.) is not an option.

Is there anything like "pkill script.sh" killing the script and all processes?

I startet a simple script "test.sh" containing nothing but a "ping www.google.com".
Using "ps ax | grep test.sh" returned nothing, so there is no test.sh in the process list. There is a ping process, but as written before, killing this is not an option.

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When you post a question it helps us to know what OS you are using. Otherwise we have to guess. Why this is important: some OS have a command like ptree that will display the pid of child processes.

As a guess, let's start here: experiment with the output of this (Linux):

Code:

ps axf -o pid,command
# or 
ps axf

Tweak the above until you get something that gives you what you want,
once you find a command that does what you want you can write a loop:
kill $([command that works for you here] | tr -s '\n' ' ')

Or simply

Code:

kill $(command)

Thanks for the answers
Unfortunately I am not wiser

OS is debian.
ps axf shows all processes, but not the script.
As stated above, I cannot terminate the processes, as I have to assume I do not know them.
I'd like to do a "pkill script.sh" which terminates the script and all its subprocesses.

Maybe,

Code:

pkill -TERM -P $(pgrep script.sh)