Problem

Want to kill all processes, for a specific user.

Solution

This command will send a -KILL signal, equivalent to minus 9:


pkill -KILL -U username


Example

So to kill all processes owned by username marcus:


pkill -KILL -U marcus


If you issue kill -l – that is kill minus L, it will show all the symbol to numeric codes. Although you can just use numeric with pkill:


pkill -9 -U marcus


Reference

[tags]pkill, proc kill, Unix Coding School[/tags]

• Linux Man Pages – pkill command