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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 19:40:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote at 22:09 this Thursday (GMT):
> 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


You can also use pgrep?
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