On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Dan Browning (Network Admin) wrote:
# Truly, I'm not trying to flood the list with stupid questions, it just comes
# so naturally to me.
#
# 1. There must be a command out there that translates the name of a process
# into it's PID, what is it?
#
pidof <name>
# 2. How could I kill all processes that have a certain name? What about
# killing all processes with a certain pattern in their name, how could I do
# that?
killall <name>
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