Linux killall Command for Beginners (8 Examples) | Linux Today

Linux killall Command for Beginners (8 Examples)

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Himanshu Arora
Feb 7, 2018

We’ve already discussed the kill command that you can use in case you want to terminate processes in Linux. However, there exists another command line utility that you can use for the same purpose: killall. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.

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Himanshu Arora

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