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[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 08:35:36PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>   killall name_off_application || killall -9 name_off_application

As a side note, pkill is available by default, does basically all the
same things as killall with a slightly nicer option layout, has a
companion "pgrep" with matching syntax, and has the (for some people)
huge advantage that if you ever find yourself on a System V-style Unix
system then you won't run into the trap that killall really kills *all*
processes there.  There's no reason to use killall over pkill, so I
always recommend pkill instead.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]