pkill (see pgrep) is a command-line utility initially written for use with the Solaris 7 operating system in 1998. It has since been reimplemented for...

and OpenBSD. pkill makes killing processes based on their name much more convenient: e.g. to kill a process named firefox without pkill (and without pgrep)...

Dorset. Although testing at Dorset apparently achieved an impressive 90% Pkill, in service the missiles were not considered a great success, due to three...

the ps command in conjunction with the grep command (see the pgrep and pkill commands) to find information about a single process, such as its id: $...

file.ps1 Kill processes ? kill, killall killall, pkill, kill, skill kill stop kill, killall kill, pkill taskkill Stop-Process Change process priority changetaskpri...

portal List of Unix commands pidof — find the process ID of running programs pkill — signal processes based on name and other attributes ps — display the currently...

snice), is a command-line utility to send a signal or report process status, pkill is favoured over it; see also top, kill, nice Skil (disambiguation) Skillz...

under OLD into NEW (including kernel threads) so OLD may be unmounted. pkill — look up or signal processes based on name and other pmap — Report the...

Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts pipe_progress pivot_root pkill popmaildir printenv printf ps — Report process status pscan pwd — Print...

the FreeBSD (including Mac OS X) and Linux psmisc tools is similar to the pkill and skill commands, killing only the processes specified on the command...

diagnosis, and other software for Sun's Solaris operating system. The pgrep and pkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major Unix operating...

fast. [...] If you have a weak heart or are the kind of mudder who takes pkills against you very personally, you might want to steer clear of this bad boy...