svn commit: r361783 - head/usr.bin/killall

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 4 04:29:44 UTC 2020


Author: bjk (doc committer)
Date: Thu Jun  4 04:29:43 2020
New Revision: 361783
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/361783

Log:
  Add EXAMPLES to killall(1)
  
  Submitted by:	fernape
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25002

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/killall/killall.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/killall/killall.1	Thu Jun  4 02:36:41 2020	(r361782)
+++ head/usr.bin/killall/killall.1	Thu Jun  4 04:29:43 2020	(r361783)
@@ -145,6 +145,50 @@ utility exits 0 if some processes have been found and
 signalled successfully.
 Otherwise, a status of 1 will be
 returned.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Send
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to all firefox processes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Send
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to firefox processes belonging to
+.Va USER :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -u ${USER} firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Stop all firefox processes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -SIGSTOP firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Resume firefox processes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -SIGCONT firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Show what would be done to firefox processes, but do not actually signal them:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -s firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Send
+.Dv SIGKILL
+to csh process running inside jail ID 282:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -9 -j282 csh
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Send
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to all processes matching provided pattern (like vim and vimdiff):
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -m 'vim*'
+.Ed
 .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
 Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
 .Fl d


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