Agreed. This command is much better than killall. I have worked with several unices, and in other versions of Unix (AIX is where I got bitten by this), killall is the command does just that. It kills all processes, as in during shutdown of the machine. AIX's killall ignores patterns and just starts shutting down the machine.
I have used pkill ever since. A companion command to pkill is pgrep, which finds commands with a pattern, for example, pgrep -u root sshd will list all running sshd processes owned by root (thereby skipping a user logged in remotely). --b 2012/1/21 Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> > If you know the name of the process(es) to be killed, use the command pkill > (from the package procps): > > pkill [options] pattern > > But be careful, this tool is a "sharp sword". > -- > Best regards, > Jörg-Volker. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jfe8bk$h79$1...@dough.gmane.org > >
