In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a killall util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting because of licensing problems.
For killall I'm using a good working script for about a half year. Perhaps anyone like this to integrate in the cygutils package. This script allows killing more than one task, because it does a grep with the first param. syntax: killall <taskname> | <tasknamepart> $ cat /bin/killall ps -ea | grep $1 | gawk '$1 ~ /^[^SI]/ { system("kill -9 " $1); }' Regards Ralf Habacker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/