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Well, you needn't have killall installed on the empeg necessarily. It just automates finding the PID of the process(es). Sending signal 2 (INT) to the process, which is the same thing a Ctrl-C does, will end it without respawn.


It is tricky though without killall. The output from PS can be 'grep'd but you really need cut to get at the PID and cut isn't on the empeg by default so it's just as easy to get killall as cut (or anything you need to extract the PID).