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The pkill command searches the process table on the running system and signals all processes that match the criteria given on the command line.
The following options are available:
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Restrict matches to a process whose PID is stored in the pidfile file. | |
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Restrict matches to processes with a real group ID in the comma-separated list gid. | |
| Request confirmation before attempting to signal each process. |
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The
pidfile
file given for the
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Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the currently running system. | |
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Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default, which is the kernel image the system has booted from. | |
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Restrict matches to processes with a parent process ID in the comma-separated list ppid. | |
| Search also in system processes (kernel threads). |
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Restrict matches to processes with a real user ID in the comma-separated list uid. | |
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Specify a delimiter to be printed between each process ID. The default is a newline. This option can only be used with the pgrep command. | |
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Include process ancestors in the match list.
By default, the current
pgrep
or
pkill
process and all of its ancestors are excluded (unless
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Restrict matches to processes running with specified login class class. | |
| Match against full argument lists. The default is to match against process names. |
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Restrict matches to processes with a process group ID in the comma-separated list pgrp. The value zero is taken to mean the process group ID of the running pgrep or pkill command. | |
| Ignore case distinctions in both the process table and the supplied pattern. |
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Restrict matches to processes inside the specified jails. The argument jail may be "any" to match processes in any jail, "none" to match processes not in jail, or a comma-separated list of jail IDs or names. | |
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Long output.
For
pgrep,
print the process name in addition to the process ID for each matching
process.
If used in conjunction with
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| Select only the newest (most recently started) of the matching processes. |
| Select only the oldest (least recently started) of the matching processes. |
| For pgrep, Do not write anything to standard output. |
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Restrict matches to processes with a session ID in the comma-separated list sid. The value zero is taken to mean the session ID of the running pgrep or pkill command. | |
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Restrict matches to processes associated with a terminal in the comma-separated list tty. Terminal names may be of the form ttyxx or the shortened form xx. A single dash (‘-’) matches processes not associated with a terminal. | |
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Restrict matches to processes with an effective user ID in the comma-separated list euid. | |
| Reverse the sense of the matching; display processes that do not match the given criteria. |
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Require an exact match of the process name, or argument list if
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signal | A non-negative decimal number or symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM. This option is valid only when given as the first argument to pkill. |
If any
pattern
operands are specified, they are used as extended regular expressions to match
the command name or full argument list of each process.
If the
Note that a running pgrep or pkill process will never consider itself nor system processes (kernel threads) as a potential match.
0 | One or more processes were matched. |
1 | No processes were matched. |
2 | Invalid options were specified on the command line. |
3 | An internal error occurred. |
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