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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