Re: kill process by name

[Roberto Sanchez]

Ryan Mackay wrote:

Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:47:38PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:

Is there a way to use the kill command
to kill a process by name?
*
For example:  kill inetd
I have to look up the pid number every time
using 'ps aux' then I can kill it with 'kill pid#'

check out `killall`

I also find pkill to be quite handy.

-Roberto

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