From a201343073c0bb4b4e33d5d3d101682d279aafce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 04:29:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add EXAMPLES to killall(1) Submitted by: fernape Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25002 --- usr.bin/killall/killall.1 | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) diff --git a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 index be813f78c46e..c369bbce22f2 100644 --- a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 +++ b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 @@ -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