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[Solved] Shell – (killall) How to kill multiple tasks with the same name
(@hans)
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October 5, 2013 5:36 AM
Killing processes with the same name in a shell can be done relatively easy under Linux:
killall name
Which will kill all processes with the name “name”.
This will only kill processed you own (ie. owned by the user you used to login).
To kill ALL processes, even the ones you do no own:
sudo killal -9 name
Where you login as super user (sudo), for the execute of the statement killall.
