There is an easy way:
ps -eo pid,user,args,pgrp --sort pgrp
Find your pgid in the last column
kill -KILL -<pgid>
--Dean
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> I know if I simply "kill pid" then the process and all its children will die.
> But I don't want to kill them. I want to "kill -SIGTSTP pid" ... and this
> works as long as I name all the pids in the process tree. It does not
> cascade the signal to all the child processes if I only name the parent pid.
>
> Does anybody know a way to send a specific kill signal to a all the
> descendents of some specific pid?
>
> FWIW - I read the kill man page, and it's riddled with errors. The most
> annoying one was ...
>
> *
> (from man kill) -p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid)
> of the named processes, and not send any signals.
> *
> So then I did this:
> [harve...@gotham ~]$ ps
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> 6382 pts/18 00:00:00 bash
> 20595 pts/18 00:00:00 ps
>
> And: kill -KILL -p 6382
> unfortunately kills my present terminal. D'Oh!!
>
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