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I want an easy way in linux to kill all my current processes.

The problem with kill -9 -1 is that it also kills the current terminal. Is there an easy way to kill everything except the current terminal?

flybywire
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This kills all processes except the ones associated with the current terminal:

kill `ps -o pid= -N T`
Inshalla
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But just want to say don't use -9 as a knee jerk mechanism as it should be used as a last resort. It can't be caught by the process and doesn't let a process cleanup its resources.

Try maybe kill -15 instead to start.

Rob Wells
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