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PKILL(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		      PKILL(1)

NAME
     pgrep, pkill — find or signal processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     pgrep [-LSafilnovx] [-F pidfile] [-G gid] [-M core] [-N system] [-P ppid]
	   [-U uid] [-d delim] [-g pgrp] [-j jid] [-s sid] [-t tty] [-u euid]
	   pattern ...
     pkill [-signal] [-ILafilnovx] [-F pidfile] [-G gid] [-M core] [-N system]
	   [-P ppid] [-U uid] [-g pgrp] [-j jid] [-s sid] [-t tty] [-u euid]
	   pattern ...

DESCRIPTION
     The pgrep command searches the process table on the running system and
     prints the process IDs of all processes that match the criteria given on
     the command line.

     The pkill command searches the process table on the running system and
     signals all processes that match the criteria given on the command line.

     The following options are available:

     -F pidfile	 Restrict matches to a process whose PID is stored in the
		 pidfile file.

     -G gid	 Restrict matches to processes with a real group ID in the
		 comma-separated list gid.

     -I		 Request confirmation before attempting to signal each
		 process.

     -L		 The pidfile file given for the -F option must be locked with
		 the flock(2) syscall or created with pidfile(3).

     -M core	 Extract values associated with the name list from the speci‐
		 fied core instead of the currently running system.

     -N system	 Extract the name list from the specified system instead of
		 the default, which is the kernel image the system has booted
		 from.

     -P ppid	 Restrict matches to processes with a parent process ID in the
		 comma-separated list ppid.

     -S		 Search also in system processes (kernel threads).

     -U uid	 Restrict matches to processes with a real user ID in the
		 comma-separated list uid.

     -d delim	 Specify a delimiter to be printed between each process ID.
		 The default is a newline.  This option can only be used with
		 the pgrep command.

     -a		 Include process ancestors in the match list.  By default, the
		 current pgrep or pkill process and all of its ancestors are
		 excluded (unless -v is used).

     -f		 Match against full argument lists.  The default is to match
		 against process names.

     -g pgrp	 Restrict matches to processes with a process group ID in the
		 comma-separated list pgrp.  The value zero is taken to mean
		 the process group ID of the running pgrep or pkill command.

     -i		 Ignore case distinctions in both the process table and the
		 supplied pattern.

     -j jid	 Restrict matches to processes inside jails with a jail ID in
		 the comma-separated list jid.	The value “any” matches pro‐
		 cesses in any jail.  The value “none” matches processes not
		 in jail.

     -l		 Long output.  For pgrep, print the process name in addition
		 to the process ID for each matching process.  If used in con‐
		 junction with -f, print the process ID and the full argument
		 list for each matching process.  For pkill, display the kill
		 command used for each process killed.

     -n		 Select only the newest (most recently started) of the match‐
		 ing processes.

     -o		 Select only the oldest (least recently started) of the match‐
		 ing processes.

     -s sid	 Restrict matches to processes with a session ID in the comma-
		 separated list sid.  The value zero is taken to mean the ses‐
		 sion ID of the running pgrep or pkill command.

     -t tty	 Restrict matches to processes associated with a terminal in
		 the comma-separated list tty.	Terminal names may be of the
		 form ttyxx or the shortened form xx.  A single dash (‘-’)
		 matches processes not associated with a terminal.

     -u euid	 Restrict matches to processes with an effective user ID in
		 the comma-separated list euid.

     -v		 Reverse the sense of the matching; display processes that do
		 not match the given criteria.

     -x		 Require an exact match of the process name, or argument list
		 if -f is given.  The default is to match any substring.

     -signal	 A non-negative decimal number or symbolic signal name speci‐
		 fying the signal to be sent instead of the default TERM.
		 This option is valid only when given as the first argument to
		 pkill.

     If any pattern operands are specified, they are used as regular expres‐
     sions to match the command name or full argument list of each process.
     If the -f option is not specified, then the pattern will attempt to match
     the command name.	However, presently FreeBSD will only keep track of the
     first 19 characters of the command name for each process.	Attempts to
     match any characters after the first 19 of a command name will quietly
     fail.

     Note that a running pgrep or pkill process will never consider itself nor
     system processes (kernel threads) as a potential match.

EXIT STATUS
     The pgrep and pkill utilities return one of the following values upon
     exit:

     0	     One or more processes were matched.

     1	     No processes were matched.

     2	     Invalid options were specified on the command line.

     3	     An internal error occurred.

COMPATIBILITY
     Historically the option “-j 0” means any jail, although in other utili‐
     ties such as ps(1) jail ID 0 has the opposite meaning, not in jail.
     Therefore “-j 0” is deprecated, and its use is discouraged in favor of
     “-j any”.

SEE ALSO
     kill(1), killall(1), ps(1), flock(2), kill(2), sigaction(2), pidfile(3),
     re_format(7)

HISTORY
     The pkill and pgrep utilities first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.  They are
     modelled after utilities of the same name that appeared in Sun Solaris 7.
     They made their first appearance in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS
     Andrew Doran ⟨ad@NetBSD.org⟩

BSD				 May 16, 2009				   BSD
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