bash - Is there a shell command that will kill all background tail processes - Stack Overflow

bash - Is there a shell command that will kill all background tail processes - Stack Overflow

You can refer to background jobs in your current shell with the %1, %2, ... idioms.

To my knowledge there's no such thing as a catch all; there's no %* or an equivalent.

But you could shortcut with

kill %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8

Which would kill the first eight background processes still running in your current shell. That may or may not be a tail.

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