-e, --exact

Require an exact match for very long names. If a command name is longer than 15 characters, the full name may be unavailable (i.e. it is swapped out). In this case, killall will kill everything that matches within the first 15 characters. With -e, such entries are skipped. killall prints a message for each skipped entry if -v is specified in addition to -e.

-I, --ignore-case

Do case insensitive process name match.

-g, --process-group

Kill the process group to which the process belongs. The kill signal is only sent once per group, even if multiple processes belonging to the same process group were found.

-i, --interactive

Interactively ask for confirmation before killing.

-l, --list

List all known signal names.

-n, --ns

Match against the PID namespace of the given PID. The default is to match against all namespaces.

-o, --older-than

Match only processes that are older (started before) the time specified. The time is specified as a float then a unit. The units are s,m,h,d,w,M,y for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years respectively.

-q, --quiet

Do not complain if no processes were killed.

-r, --regexp

Interpret process name pattern as a POSIX extended regular expression, per regex(3).

-s, --signal, **-**SIGNAL

Send this signal instead of SIGTERM.

-u, --user

Kill only processes the specified user owns. Command names are optional.

-v, --verbose

Report if the signal was successfully sent.

-V, --version

Display version information.

-w, --wait

Wait for all killed processes to die. killall checks once per second if any of the killed processes still exist and only returns if none are left. Note that killall may wait forever if the signal was ignored, had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie state.

-y, --younger-than

Match only processes that are younger (started after) the time specified. The time is specified as a float then a unit. The units are s,m,h,d,w,M,y for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, Months and years respectively.

-Z, --context

Specify security context: kill only processes having security context that match with given extended regular expression pattern. Must precede other arguments on the command line. Command names are optional.