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Hello everyone,
I'm trying to find the difference between the following commands:
stop, kill and killall.
Yet so far without any luck.
Can someone give me a small explanation or ...
- 02-06-2009 #1Just Joined!
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difference stop, kill, killall
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to find the difference between the following commands:
stop, kill and killall.
Yet so far without any luck.
Can someone give me a small explanation or a good link to a website?
Thx a lot in advanceLast edited by Aggror; 02-06-2009 at 02:42 PM. Reason: grammar
- 02-06-2009 #2forum.guy
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Welcome to the forums!

You can get lots of info on various Linux commands from here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/oz
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- 02-09-2009 #3Just Joined!
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Cool link, ozar.
Thanks for that!!
- 02-10-2009 #4Just Joined!
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That site is awesome!!
THX
- 02-12-2009 #5Just Joined!
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Also check out pgrep and pkill for finding and killing programs. These are part of the procps package which I believe is always installed.


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