pkill for windows

One of my absolute favorite tools on solaris is pkill. Without it, when you want to send a signal to a process (most likely to kill it) you need to figure out the process ID and then use that:

kill -HUP 1234

If you want to kill all of a type of process (e.g. all the sshd's), you end up doing something like this:

for i in `/usr/bin/ps -o pid,args -ef |grep sshd |awk '{ print $1 }'`; do kill $i;done

With pkill this becomes:

pkill sshd

Understand why I like it? Well, I just learned the powershell equivalent, and am PSYCHED.

Stop-Process (Get-Process winword).id

Bye-Bye Word.