Pkill
From FreeBSDwiki
(Difference between revisions)
Ninereasons (Talk | contribs) (dead-end; link to regular expressions) |
|||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| − | pkill | + | pkill is a [[regular expressions]] extension to the [[killall]] command, which sends signals to running processes specified by name. |
| − | + | ||
| − | + | ||
| + | The pkill command searches the process table on the running system and prints the process IDs of all processes that match the criteria given on the command line and kills it. | ||
[[Category : System Commands]] | [[Category : System Commands]] | ||
Latest revision as of 14:24, 12 June 2006
pkill is a regular expressions extension to the killall command, which sends signals to running processes specified by name.
The pkill command searches the process table on the running system and prints the process IDs of all processes that match the criteria given on the command line and kills it.
