Kills all processes with a certain name?

[Dan Browning (Network Admin)]

Truly, I'm not trying to flood the list with stupid questions, it just comes
so naturally to me.

1.  There must be a command out there that translates the name of a process
into it's PID, what is it?

2.  How could I kill all processes that have a certain name?  What about
killing all processes with a certain pattern in their name, how could I do
that?

I'm thinking:

# kill | (trans_processid *pat[]tern*)
   ^-whatever that command is

Thanks in advance.

Dan Browning
Network Administrator
Cyclone Computer Systems