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.HS KILLEXPR cmds
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'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
killexpr \- Kill all processes who match the given expression(s)
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBkillexpr\fR [\fIoptions\fR] \fIexpr expr...\fR
.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB\-h \fIhost\fR" 15
Kills processes on the machine \fIhost\fR. The default is to kill processes
on the local host.
.IP "\fB\-help\fR" 15
Print a summary of the command-line options.
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The \fBkillexpr\fR command
is used to a user's processes whose command line contains
one of a set of regular expressions.
The regular expression arguments are 'or'ed together to form a single
expression that compared to the command lines of the user's processes.
If a match is found the process is sent a SIGTERM signal, followed by
a SIGKILL signal.
The expression arguments are often simple strings, but can be more
complex regular expressions of the form found in Perl.
A process will be killed even if the expression matches only part
of a word.
If you want the expression to match an entire word in the command line
then you should surround the argument with spaces.
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
.IP "killexpr foo"
Kills all processes that have the pattern 'foo' in their command line.
.IP "killexpr ' foo '"
Kills all processes that have the word 'foo' in their command line.
.IP "killexpr foo bar
Kills all processes that have either the pattern 'foo'
or the pattern 'bar' in their command line.
.IP "killexpr '^foo'
Kills all processes whose command line starts with the pattern 'foo'.
.SH KEYWORDS
kill
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