KALL
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 26 February 1991
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NAME
kall - kill processes by command name
SYNOPSIS
kall
[-signal] prog1 [prog2...]
DESCRIPTION
Kall
sends the specified signal (defaults to -TERM) to all processes
whose command name is specified on the command line. For example:
kall -HUP remind foobar
sends a HUP signal to all remind and foobar programs.
Note that kall sends signals only to those processes owned by the
user invoking kall.
AUTHOR
David F. Skoll
BUGS
Kall
is a sh(1) script and depends on the behaviour of ps(1); thus, it is
not especially portable.
SEE ALSO
remind, rem
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