Killing processes SHELL

Question

This command ps -ef | grep php returns a list of processes

I want to kill in one command or with a shell script all those processes

Thanks

Answer 1

The easiest way to kill all commands with a given name is to use killall:

killall php

Note, this only sends an interrupt signal. This should be enough if the processes are behaving. If they're not dying from that, you can forcibly kill them using

killall -9 php