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.

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