NAME

killexpr − Kill all processes who match the given expression(s)

SYNOPSIS

killexpr [options] expr expr...

OPTIONS

−h hostKills processes on the machine host. The default is to kill processes on the local host. 

−helpPrint a summary of the command-line options. 
 

DESCRIPTION

The killexpr command is used to a user’s processes whose command line contains one of a set of regular expressions.  The regular expression arguments are ’or’ed together to form a single expression that compared to the command lines of the user’s processes.  If a match is found the process is sent a SIGTERM signal, followed by a SIGKILL signal.  The expression arguments are often simple strings, but can be more complex regular expressions of the form found in Perl.  A process will be killed even if the expression matches only part of a word.  If you want the expression to match an entire word in the command line then you should surround the argument with spaces. 

EXAMPLES

killexpr foo
Kills all processes that have the pattern ’foo’ in their command line.

killexpr ’ foo ’
Kills all processes that have the word ’foo’ in their command line.

killexpr foo bar
Kills all processes that have either the pattern ’foo’ or the pattern ’bar’ in their command line.

killexpr ’^foo’
Kills all processes whose command line starts with the pattern ’foo’.

KEYWORDS

kill
 

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