pkill

Convenience wrapper around pkill(1).

Usage

Sync

• Will throw if there's a problem.
• Does not throw for no matching processes.

// kills all processes named 'node'
pkill('node')

Match on full exec pattern: pkill.full

// kills all processes matching 'node debug'
pkill.full('node debug')

Async

• Does not err for no matching processes.

pkill('node', function (err, validPid) {
  err      // if err.
  validPid // if matched any processes
})

Compatibility

• Not work on windows.

License

MIT