Category

Linux Command


Usage

pkill [options] pattern


Manual

pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the pro-
cess IDs which matches the selection criteria to stdout. All the cri-
teria have to match. For example,

pgrep -u root sshd

will only list the processes called sshd AND owned by root. On the
other hand,

pgrep -u root,daemon

will list the processes owned by root OR daemon.

pkill will send the specified signal (by default SIGTERM) to each pro-
cess instead of listing them on stdout.



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