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authorBenjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>2020-06-04 04:29:43 +0000
committerBenjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>2020-06-04 04:29:43 +0000
commita201343073c0bb4b4e33d5d3d101682d279aafce (patch)
treeb67776cc12aba607409c9b55fd115bbb15043e7d /usr.bin/killall
parent3a3bc1b1fdf27dbb723e0410bddcb35e20c0338f (diff)
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diff --git a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
index be813f78c46e..c369bbce22f2 100644
--- a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
+++ b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
@@ -145,6 +145,50 @@ utility exits 0 if some processes have been found and
signalled successfully.
Otherwise, a status of 1 will be
returned.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Send
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to all firefox processes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Send
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to firefox processes belonging to
+.Va USER :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -u ${USER} firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Stop all firefox processes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -SIGSTOP firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Resume firefox processes:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -SIGCONT firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Show what would be done to firefox processes, but do not actually signal them:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -s firefox
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Send
+.Dv SIGKILL
+to csh process running inside jail ID 282:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -9 -j282 csh
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Send
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to all processes matching provided pattern (like vim and vimdiff):
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+killall -m 'vim*'
+.Ed
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
.Fl d