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Posted: **Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:52 am**

Is there any command to kill a process which also kills all its child processes forcefully?

Posted: **Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:35 am**

Hi!

killall -KILL -g [parent-process-name]

should do the job, at least it does so for my shell scripts.

cheers Joe

Posted: **Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:25 am**

Couldnt find killall in CYGWIN thats why I wasn't trying it. Thanks anyway.
Is there some option of 'kill' that does this same thing?

Killing child processes