Killall Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

Killall Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian

killall

Send kill signal to all instances of a process by name (must be exact name).
All signals except SIGKILL and SIGSTOP can be intercepted by the process, allowing a clean exit.

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Install killall

  • Debian apt-get install psmisc Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install psmisc Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add psmisc Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S psmisc Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install psmisc Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install psmisc Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install psmisc Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install psmisc Click to copy

Send kill signal to all instances of a process by name (must be exact name). All signals except SIGKILL and SIGSTOP can be intercepted by the process, allowing a clean exit.

How to use killall?

Below are few example commands for killall that you can use in the terminal.

Terminate a process using the default SIGTERM (terminate) signal:
killall process_nameClick to copyList available signal names (to be used without the 'SIG' prefix):
killall --listClick to copyInteractively ask for confirmation before termination:
killall -i process_nameClick to copyTerminate a process using the SIGINT (interrupt) signal, which is the same signal sent by pressing `Ctrl + C`:
killall -INT process_nameClick to copyForce kill a process:
killall -KILL process_nameClick to copy
Install the latest version of killall in Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian from terminal. To install the killall just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of killall from the respository and install it in your computer/server.