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flybywire
Asked: 2009-07-17 00:45:54 +0800 CST

linux: kill all my processes but not this terminal

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I want an easy way in linux to kill all my current processes.

The problem with kill -9 -1 is that it also kills the current terminal. Is there an easy way to kill everything except the current terminal?

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  1. Best Answer

    This kills all processes except the ones associated with the current terminal:

    kill `ps -o pid= -N T`
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  2. But just want to say don't use -9 as a knee jerk mechanism as it should be used as a last resort. It can't be caught by the process and doesn't let a process cleanup its resources.

    Try maybe kill -15 instead to start.

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