Process Management
pkill
Kills processes based on patterns.
Ubuntu
CentOS
Debian
Arch
SUSE
Slackware
Alpine
Fedora
Verified: 2025-09-09
Syntax
$pkill [OPTIONEN] MUSTER
Examples
$pkill firefox
$pkill -f 'python script'
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
pkill --help
Note
Extended with pgrep
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