What's the difference between 'killall' and 'pkill'?
- by jgbelacqua
After using just plain kill <some_pid> on Unix systems for many years, I learned pkill from a younger Linux-savvy co-worker colleague1.
I soon accepted the Linux-way, pgrep-ing and pkill-ing through many days and nights, through slow-downs and race conditions. This was all well and good.
But now I see nothing but killall . How-to's seem…