Any neat and quick way to kill a process including all child processes

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I know this sounds like a common question and I should be able to find answer in archives. Tried looking for some, but couldn't find. All the responses look very lengthy. Any 1-liner to kill a process in linux including all its children processes.

Visit [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2618403/how-to-kill-all-subprocesses-of-shell), it should help. — psiphi75, Aug 28 '12 at 10:36

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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If they're all in the same group, use kill and pass the negation of the group id, as in here.

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answered Aug 28 '12 at 10:42

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rindeal · Answer 2 · 2015-10-30T08:13:39.420

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kill $PID $(pgrep -P $PID)

pgrep -P lists PIDs of all childs (not recursively)

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answered Jul 11 '15 at 12:58

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Any neat and quick way to kill a process including all child processes

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