Send kill to a processes for an user on Linux

Got to start remembering this one – notice use of “inverted pings” for indirection from the ps command to the kill command…

kill -9 `ps -u <username>`

Published by

lekkim

Positive, competent, out-spoken, frank and customer focused architect and developer with a strong foundation in web, cloud and product development. I'm a strong advocate for API first and cloud based solutions and development. I have a knack for being able to communicate and present technically complicated matters in conference, customer and training settings. I've previously acted as team member and leader in a product organisation. View all posts by lekkim

One thought on “Send kill to a processes for an user on Linux”

Christian Gut says:

June 6, 2006 at 23:03

pkill -u or
pkill -u

could help you too, kills all matching processes.

Comments are closed.