Comments on: Pkill – an Easier Linux Kill Command http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/01/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/ I will not fix your computer. Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:34:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.26 By: polarizer http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/01/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-6494 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:09:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/31/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-6494

This just works for FF because of the same command name prefix and will fail in many other cases while forked processes will not necessarily will follow such naming conventions.

But – nevertheless – these are useful commands.

I knew pkill but missed pgrep – so thanks for the hint.

the polarizer

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]]> By: Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » How To Kill Stuff On Linux http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/01/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-6444 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:54:58 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/31/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-6444

[…] I mentioned pkill before, so I’m not going to repeat myself. All you need to know is that pkill is a smart fellow. He went to ninja school and is sneaky enough to figure out that when you tell it to kill firefox, you really mean firefox-bin. By that logic Kill and killall are kinda like mob hitmen – effective, but dumb as bricks. You have to tell them exactly who to hit, and how. […]

]]> By: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/01/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-5495 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:29:28 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/31/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-5495

Heh. I definitely love my /proc goodies. ;P

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]]> By: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/08/01/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-5494 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:48:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/31/pkill-an-easier-linux-kill-command/#comment-5494

Solaris has had this for a while (introduced in Solaris 7). The older versions are located in /usr/proc/bin but others have been sym-linked to /usr/bin.

There are many “p” commands to get info on processes. Solaris had to make-up for not having all the goodies in the /proc tree I guess . . .

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