serenity/Base/usr/share/man/man1/pkill.md at 307dc00ee02e9f40b11d3888f4ccda6b03944f43

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Tim Ledbetter 17fe2c4822 pkill: Add -O option to filter processes by age

This option allows the user to specify a number of seconds. Only
processes older than the given number of seconds are killed.

2023-06-16 07:22:45 +02:00

Name

pkill - Signal processes based on name

$ pkill [--count] [--ignore-case] [--echo] [--newest] [--oldest] [--older seconds] [--signal signame] [--uid uid-list] [--exact] <process-name>

-c, --count: Display the number of matching processes
-i, --ignore-case: Make matches case-insensitive
-e, --echo: Display what is killed
-n, --newest: Kill the most recently created process only
-o, --oldest: Select the least recently created process only
-O, --older: Select only processes older than the specified number of seconds
-s signame, --signal signame: Signal to send. The signal name or number may be used
-U uid-list, --uid uid-list: Select only processes whose UID is in the given comma-separated list. Login name or numerical user ID may be used
-x, --exact: Select only processes whose names match the given pattern exactly