mpivars(1)

💖 mpivars — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the mpivars(1) page from the General Commands Manual section, and yes the title situation is a little chaotic (the page is called mpivars but the command is parkill, we love a plot twist) ✨ anyway let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

parkill — kills all the processes that are running a command you picked, periodt 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

parkill [ -debug ] [ -verbose ] [ -user=name ] program

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, parkill does exactly what it says on the tin: it kills every single process that's running the command you specified. no cap 🔥

Heads up bestie: lots of systems already have a killall command, and if yours has it, please use that instead. it's the better move, fr fr 🙈

This script lowkey depends on the ps command. but where it can, it uses the /proc/<pid>/cmdline interface to grab the commandline in a more reliable way — specifically so it doesn't end up matching command line parameters as if they were functions. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -debug — spills the debug info. show me everything, main character energy 💜
• -verbose — be verbose. talk your talk ✨
• --user=name — only kill processes that belong to one particular user. root privileges are required for this one, so don't come for it without the power bestie 😭

💖 AUTHOR 💖

This manpage was written by Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>, by copying from src/env/parkill.in in the MPICH sources. slay, honestly 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• mpiexec.hydra(1)
• mpicc.mpich(1)
• mpicxx.mpich(1)
• mpif77.mpich(1)
• mpif90.mpich(1)
• mpifort.mpich(1)

okay that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💅✨

this version is from 2015-11-06 and it lives in the mpivars(1) slot in the manual set — love that for it, mwah 🎀🦋💜