KILLALL5(8)

✨ KILLALL5(8) — killall5 ✨

💖 NAME

killall5 - send a signal to all processes 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS

killall5 -signalnumber [-o omitpid[,omitpid...]]  [-o
omitpid[,omitpid...]...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

okay so killall5 is the SystemV killall command, bestie 💅 it sends a signal to all processes except kernel threads and the processes in its own session, so it won't accidentally nuke the shell that's running the script it was called from 😭 no cap, that's the whole glow-up. Its primary (only) use is in the rc scripts found in the /etc/init.d directory 🧚

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -o omitpid — tells killall5 to omit processes with that process id 🙈

🦋 NOTES

killall5 can also be invoked as pidof(8), which is simply a (symbolic) link to the killall5 program 💜 it's giving multitasking, iykyk 🫶

🔥 EXIT STATUS

the program returns 0 if it killed processes 👑 it returns 2 if no process was killed, and 1 if it was unable to find any processes (/proc/ is missing) 💀 so if /proc/ is gone, that's a whole vibe check, periodt 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO

halt(8), reboot(8), pidof(8) ⭐

💅 AUTHOR

Miquel van Smoorenburg 🍓

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sysvinit · 04 Nov 2003 · KILLALL5(8) — bye bestie, stay iconic 💖🧚✨