On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:09, Don Gould wrote: > I also wanted to know how to kill a bunch of process with one command [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ apropos kill XKillClient [XSetCloseDownMode] (3x) - control clients kill (1) - send a signal to a process kill (1p) - terminate or signal processes kill (2) - send signal to a process kill (3p) - send a signal to a process or a group of processes kill [builtins] (1) - bash built-in commands, see bash(1) killall (1) - kill processes by name killchar [curs_termattrs] (3x) - curses environment query routines killpg (2) - send signal to a process group killpg (3) - send signal to all members of a process group killpg (3p) - send a signal to a process group killwchar [curs_termattrs] (3x) - curses environment query routines pkill [pgrep] (1) - look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes pthread_kill (3p) - send a signal to a thread skill (1) - send a signal or report process status snice [skill] (1) - send a signal or report process status tgkill [tkill] (2) - send a signal to a single process tkill (2) - send a signal to a single process yes (1) - output a string repeatedly until killed
apropos is a very useful command. I think killall or rehaps pkill is the one you want.
