Kill all sleep processes

Question

How do I kill all sleep processes that are running? I realize that I can either use the kill command to kill each process via its PID, or I can use pkill to kill the sleep command by name. I'm trying to figure out how I would do this, any help would be appreciated. I used

man pkill

to get some help but am still unsure.

Answer 1

如果您确实必须执行此危险操作，请使用killall命令：

killall sleep

Answer 2

There is an option for the pkill command that will kill all processes named the given pattern.

pkill -x [pattern] (or) pkill -exact [pattern]

These commands will kill all processes with the same name as [pattern]