Title: How to kill processes by their name | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 25 August 2016 | |
Tags: unix | |
Description: | |
If you want to kill a process by its name instead of its PID number, | |
which is easier if you have to kill processes from the same binary, | |
here are the commands depending of your operating system: | |
**FreeBSD / Linux** | |
$ killall pid_name | |
**OpenBSD** | |
$ pkill pid_name | |
**Solaris** | |
Be careful with Solaris killall. With no argument, the command will | |
send a signal to every active process, which is not something you | |
want. | |
$ killall pid_name |