#!/usr/bin/env bash

# A better version of `killall` that seems to work more reliably. The key trick
# here is pgrep's `-f` flag, which will search the full command name.
#
# This probably isn't fully robust, but good enough for me.

process="$1"
if [ -z "$process" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $(basename "$0") <process-name>" >&2
  exit 1
fi
pgrep -f "(^|/)$process($|\\s+)" | xargs -r kill