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by bnegreve 5331 days ago
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killall programname

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Be careful with killall -- BSD and Linux killall does what you say, but SysV killall kills every program on the machine.

Most of us probably won't be executing killall on any HPUX or IRIX boxes, but it's still good to know the difference ;)