Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Name

killall

Synopsis

killall [options] procname...

Kills processes specified by command or pattern match. The default signal sent by killall is TERM but may be specified on the command line. killall assembles and executes a set of kill commands to accomplish its task.

Options

-c procname

Use with the -t or -u options to limit processes that sent a signal to those matching procname.

-d

Print diagnostic information only about targeted processes; doesn’t send signal.

-h, -help,-?

Print usage and exit.

-l

List known signal names.

-m

Interpret the procname as a case-insensitive regular expression for selecting real process names to send a signal to.

-s

Show the kill command lines that send the signal but don’t actually execute them.

-SIGNAL

Send specified signal to process. signal may be a name (see -l option) or number.

-t tty

Used to further select only those processes attached to the specified tty(procname tty), or to select all processes attached to the specified tty(i.e., no procname specified).

-u user

Used to further select only those processes owned by the specified user(procname user), or to select all processes owned by the specified user (i.e., no procname specified).

-v

Verbose output. Print the kill command lines that send the signal.