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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4543- August 19, 2025
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 : Today's Tip Unix Tip #4543- August 19, 2025
 
 
KILL A USER, IN THE UNIX SENSE 
DISCLAIMER: UGU is not telling you to kill your users.
 If you so choose to it is at your own discretion and you
 are doing it at your own risk.
 
 Although we all have that ONE USER...
 
 To kill all the processes associated with a particular user
 simply:
 
 # kill -9 `ps -aef|grep jondoe |awk '{ print $2 }'`
 
 If you want to be a nice admin, tell him first.
 
 
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