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kill -9 everything
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killall
#!bin/bash
ps aux |
grep $1 |
ruby -ne 'print $_.split[1]+"\n"' |
xargs kill -9
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jphenow commented Jan 21, 2014

genocide

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pbyrne commented Jan 21, 2014

Is this different than the existing killall command?

NAME
     killall -- kill processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     killall [-delmsvz] [-help] [-u user] [-t tty] [-c procname] [-SIGNAL] [procname ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The killall utility kills processes selected by name, as opposed to the selection by pid as done by kill(1).  By
     default, it will send a TERM signal to all processes with a real UID identical to the caller of killall that
     match the name procname.  The super-user is allowed to kill any process.

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LOL, there is a kill all command already?!?! god dammit. this is different because it uses kill -9, instead of just the regular kill which sends SIGTERM and allows process cleanup. This one sends SIGKILL and says DIE IN FIRE!!!

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