Kill all Background Jobs

jwprz70 · 09-07-2004, 10:16 PM

How do you kill all background jobs? I have tried Kill 0 and Kill -0, and they do not seem to work.

fenderman11111 · 09-07-2004, 10:27 PM

you can't kill a job #, only a pid

so, do 'ps aux' and then find your process... kill the pid of it. it's the big #, more than 3 digits probably...

so like 'kill 2376'

tim1235 · 09-07-2004, 10:53 PM

You can also force a kill with the -9 option

i.e kill -9 2345

chii-chan · 09-08-2004, 12:43 AM

Use "killall process_name" to kill by name.

jwprz70 · 09-08-2004, 06:46 PM

What if you have multiple background jobs running? The point is I need to be able to kill all background jobs, not individual ones in which I know the PID.

CroMagnon · 09-08-2004, 08:52 PM

hi jwprz - you can use "jobs -p" to get the process ids of every background job.

then (if you're *sure* you want to kill every job), you can do this:

for x in `jobs -p`; do kill -9 $x; done

The -9 might or might not be necessary depending on your situation.

rjtucke · 09-08-2004, 08:53 PM

This is as a regular user, right? IE, not as root?
If you give me more info on what exactly you are doing, I will help you code up a perl script to do it. Like, when you say background, does that mean all processes listed under ps -x?

pippet · 09-09-2004, 12:52 AM

do u want to kill all background jobs of a particular type? for example, all instances of mozilla?
if that is the case use
$killall programmename

phoenix7 · 09-09-2004, 05:51 AM

Hi
you can get programs uid and pid by running

Code:

ps

then you can use

Code:

killall UID

or

Code:

kill PID

if you use '-9' option of kill & killall you can sure about terminating that program

Cheers,
Mohammad

jkastelic · 05-08-2010, 03:50 PM

Hello!

A more elegant options is to use

Code:

kill -9 $(jobs -p)

Cheers,
Jakob

ksdeepu · 05-12-2010, 01:29 AM

kill -9 %jobid will do