wikipedia:pkill command is used to send signals to process. pkill command allows the use of extended regular expression patterns and other matching criteria.
pkill is available at least in Linux and Solaris and in Ubuntu and Debian in procps package.
See also
kill and killallpgrep- Process, zombie process, fork, thread:
ps, tree, pstree, ps axf, proc, pwdx, which, watch, sar -q, tload, uptime, Interrupts, pgrep, tasklist (Windows), Zombie process, pstack, docker ps, docker-compose ps, jobs, acct, process mrelease, pidstat, IPC, pidof
