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killall

Kill processes by name

Syntax

killall [OPTION]... NAME...

Common Options

-iInteractive confirmation
-9Force kill with SIGKILL
-15Graceful terminate with SIGTERM
-vVerbose output
-wWait for process to die
-rUse regex for process name
-qQuiet mode
-uFilter by user

Common Examples

killall nginx

Kill all nginx processes

killall -9 python

Force kill all python processes

killall -i firefox

Interactively kill firefox

killall -u user process

Kill process for user

killall -w nginx

Kill and wait

killall -r "py.*"

Kill with regex pattern

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