I am more a `killall <processname>` guy.

> I am more a `killall <processname>` guy.

I've made a note to name the executable for my next daemon "humans".

Don't do that on Solaris ;-)

Been there, done that :(

See also the 'reboot' (or is it the 'poweroff' ?) command, which is much more direct than the Linux equivalent...

Sometimes, I want something a little more murderous, so I tend to write this script on most systems I use:

    ps -ef | grep $1 | awk '{print "kill -9 " $2}' | sh

Usually stored as /usr/local/bin/kll

I've found it's very useful for killing specific Java programs without having to killall -9 java.

(and, yeah, I should probably be using ps -efww instead of ps -ef, but old habits die hard... I've already got ps aliased to ps -ww for interactive use, so I should probably change this script...)

You should try jps it's similar to ps but only lists java processes with their real names instead of just "java". It's included in pretty much every JDK.

'pkill' can do a bit more, it's the better alternative in my opinion.

oh god i thought I was the only one

For just viewing system information, I usually prefer glances to htop, although it can't signal. It has a curses interface and also includes network traffic, docker containers, disk IO, and it's nicely pluggable for both output formats (it can dump to CSV at interval as a daemon or while you're running it interactively (or something like graphite/influxdb if you have those)) as well as collection mechanisms (you write some python).

I discovered htop when regular top changed its default behavior to be nigh unusable. htop was recommended as an alternative, and while I've since learned how to configure top to go back to its old behavior [0], I've found that I just prefer htop now.

[0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189757

Agreed, htop is pretty awesome!