How can I kill all stopped jobs?

Question

When I try to exit from my Linux server I get the message:

There are stopped jobs.

: Is there a single command to kill these?

Answer 1

To quickly kill all the jobs running under the bash, enter:

kill `jobs -p`

jobs -p list process ID of the job's. kill jobs -p send TERM signal to all job's.

Answer 2

Try typing this:

kill -9 $(jobs -p)

Answer 3

The accepted answer would kill all jobs (which is sufficient in this case) and not merely the stopped ones. Should you want to kill only the Stopped ones, run:

kill $(jobs -l | grep Stopped | cut -d' ' -f3)

Answer 4

The easiest way is actually to simply immediately retry the exit; bash will take that to mean "kill all stopped jobs and exit".

Answer 5

for x in `jobs -p` ; do kill -9 $x ; done