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[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

killall -9 processname works well when you can't be asked to get the pid.

kill -9 $$ is my favourite way to save face when I enter something into shell that shouldn't be in its history. Usual situation - switching panes and forgetting a recently used sudo session. Switching to root and getting there without a password prompt, but still typing it in. Wouldn't be helpful in situations where shell history is monitored remotely, but hey ho.

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago

Keep in mind that some killall implementations do not take arguments and instead literally kills all processes. You might want to use pkill instead.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 months ago

I did not know that! Thank you!

What do you mean by implementations? Is this closer debian vs rhel or more like linux vs bsd?

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

Looking it up, seems like it's something you will only find on original UNIX. So probably nothing you have to worry about in reality tbh.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's still a good habit to get into as this kind of thing could potentially bite you nastily if you ever end up on the wrong machine (which can happen).

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

That's pretty smart. However, you might want to make sure there are no child processes first

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