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Subject: Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once
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On 2025-04-04 15:40, Marc Haber wrote:
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>> Okay, enough of that...  I don't use -9 but killall is handy in small
>>> doses.
>>
>> I use -KILL instead of -9, but if you've got a program that's gone
>> nuts and it's ingoring SIGTERM, what else can you do? True you
>> shouldn't need to use it with intended behaviour like in the
>> article though.
>>
>> Another handy signal for killall is -0, which does nothing. It's
>> handy because you can check whether a process with a certain name
>> exists or not, eg.
>>
>> $ killall -q -0 tin && echo "Tin is running"
>> Tin is running
> 
> Come on, boys, we have the 2020ies, and pgrep and pkill have been
> around for two decades now.

Care to explain? I've never used them, what's the advantage?

> 
> I am an old fart myself, and I refrain from using killall since it
> does different things on Solaris than on Linux.

I don't have or do any Solaris.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.