linux: kill all my processes but not this terminal

Question

I want an easy way in linux to kill all my current processes.

The problem with kill -9 -1 is that it also kills the current terminal. Is there an easy way to kill everything except the current terminal?

Solution 1

This kills all processes except the ones associated with the current terminal:

kill `ps -o pid= -N T`

Solution 2

But just want to say don't use -9 as a knee jerk mechanism as it should be used as a last resort. It can't be caught by the process and doesn't let a process cleanup its resources.

Try maybe kill -15 instead to start.

Comments

[ThorstenS]

doesn't work under debian. ps lists all processes

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That may well be ... but if executed as root or under sudo that brings down the system. stackoverflow.com/questions/53048310/… :D