Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once

On 4/12/25 7:47 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-04-12 12:21, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 07-04-2025, Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> a écrit :

Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 06-04-2025, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> a écrit :

On 2025-04-05 15:44, Marc Haber wrote:

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-04-04 15:40, Marc Haber wrote:

I am an old fart myself, and I refrain from using killall since it
does different things on Solaris than on Linux.

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I don't have or do any Solaris.

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And if you do, you'll kill all.

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That's fine.

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Same for me. I'm not using Solaris and killall always did what I wanted,
so except for a good reason, I'll keep using it.

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The good reason is accident prevention. Like putting on a seat belt.
Or not driving on the other side of the road even if noone's there.

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For me, it's easier to avoid accident by giving the name of the program
I want to stop to killall, than by giving the number of the process to
kill. By far. Because I can make a mistake in copying the process number
or in looking at the line in which it's displayed. When it's very
difficult to make a mistake using the name and the tabular key to use
the name of the process.
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So, for me, killall is by far the best way to prevent accidents. And
knowing it's working differently on slowlaris, which I don't use, isn't
an interesting reason for me to stop using it.

 Same here.
 The only snag, of course, is that there can be multiple processes. Hopefully we know that. Run killall as user, not root.

   Ya know ... big annoyances ... you CAN just re-boot
   the machine. Clears out LOTS of shit. Takes about
   60 seconds max these days.
   This is not perfect for EVERY possible app, but IS
   good for MOST of them.