Originally posted by: omojoy

I have a list of process to kill daily for a particular user

How can I kill all at once without having to specify each process number after the kill command

Originally posted by: orphy

If they are tied to a particular user, try

ps -fu<user>|egrep -v 'PID|egrep'|awk '{print $2}'|xargs -i kill {}
If tied to a particular tty/pts, try

ps -ft<tty or pts>|egrep -v 'PID|egrep'|awk '{print $2}'|xargs -i kill {}
If neither, show us a list of those processes and we'll look at this again.
Orphy

Originally posted by: Kosala

If all these processes are owned by a single user (not root), then issue "kill -9 -1" from that user.

Originally posted by: Kosala

NOTE: All the other processes which is owned by the same user, which might not be the processes you need to kill, will also be killed. For example, the shell you're issuing the command from will also be killed... so this is not killing... kind of a massacre.