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Terminating a bash shell script running in the background

I often use bash shell scripts to run simple commands for many different files. For example, suppose that I have the following bash shell script, called script.sh, that runs the program/command foo ...
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`ps | grep | kill` aborts my script prematurely [duplicate]

I have a Linux computer that I remotely SSH into using plink on a Windows XP machine. I have the Plink program set to execute commands in a script using automated login: plink -ssh [domain name] -l ...
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Why does “kill -9 0” end my console session?

I just wonder why kill -9 0 ends my tty console session? What exactly is PID 0, it is not listed on a ps aux?
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I want to kill all processes that result from the following command

The following command will display all the PID's running for vmstat1: ps -ef | grep "vmstat 1" | awk '{ print $2 }' My question is, how do I kill them all, if there's like 20 of them at once?
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Finding the ID of a process and killing it

When ever I need to kill a background process I do ps -e | grep <process_name> Which prints something like this 1766 ? 00:00:13 conky , Then I use the process ID to kill it like so kill 1766 . ...
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Alternative to `pkill` or `pgrep -f` on cygwin?

Suppose I have starting my process like: java -DSOME_STRING -jar foo.jar Then on linux, I can use the following to find or kill this process: pgrep -f SOME_STRING pkill -f SOME_STRING However ...
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killall gives me `no process found ` but ps

Could somebody explain to me the difference between kill and killall? Why doesn't killall see what ps shows? # ps aux |grep db2 root 1123 0.0 0.8 841300 33956 pts/1 Sl 11:48 0:00 ...