tldr/pages/common/pkill.md

pkill

Signal process by name. Mostly used for stopping processes.

• Kill all processes which match:

pkill -9 {{process_name}}

• Kill all processes which match their full command instead of just the process name:

pkill -9 -f "{{command_name}}"

• Send SIGUSR1 signal to processes which match:

pkill -USR1 {{process_name}}