Kill all processes with specified name
If you need to kill all processes with specified process name/pattern you can use the pkill command. First of all you can get the process list for specified pattern:
ps aux | grep <pattern>
For example to get all exim processes:
ps aux | grep exim
You will see the list of processes. No you can kill all of them using next command:
pkill -9 -f <pattern>
For example kill all exim processes:
pkill -9 -f exim
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