Killing child processes

[Neo]

Is there any command to kill a process which also kills all its child processes forcefully?

[JoeKayzA]

Hi!

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killall -KILL -g [parent-process-name]

should do the job, at least it does so for my shell scripts.

cheers Joe

[Neo]

Couldnt find killall in CYGWIN thats why I wasn't trying it. Thanks anyway.
Is there some option of 'kill' that does this same thing?