🖥️killall

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# The killall command lets you kill a process by name. Unlike kill - which requires ID of the process to be killed - killall just requires the name of the process.

killall nautilus
# Kill the process nautilus

killall -STOP render 
# Pause execution of any process called render. As if you pressed Ctrl-Z in shell. Resume with 'killall -CONT render'

killall -USR1 dd 
# Force each dd command in the process table to output its current status (blocks written, etc). The USR1 signal does this.

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