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

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once
Date	2025-04-12 13:47 +0200
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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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't have or do any Solaris.
>>>>>
>>>>> And if you do, you'll kill all.
>>>>
>>>> That's fine.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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  Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-02 00:51 +0000
    Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-04-04 08:09 +1000
      Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-04-04 15:40 +0200
        Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-04 18:27 +0200
          Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-04-05 15:44 +0200
            Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-06 13:00 +0200
              Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-06 12:11 +0000
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-04-07 09:21 +0200
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-07 12:00 +0100
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Allodoxaphobia <trepidation@example.net> - 2025-04-07 20:42 +0000
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-07 18:04 -0400
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-07 22:45 +0000
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-07 21:51 -0400
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                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-07 23:52 -0400
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-04-08 18:05 +0000
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-10 07:20 -0400
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-07 22:40 +0000
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-08 07:52 -0700
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                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-09 07:59 -0700
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-04-12 10:21 +0000
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-12 13:47 +0200
                Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-04-13 01:06 -0400
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        Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-04-04 19:36 +0000
          Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-04-05 11:55 +0200
      Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-04 19:00 +0000
        Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-04 22:08 +0200
      Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-09 19:40 +0000
        Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-04-10 07:53 +0200
          Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-10 18:00 +0000

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