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Kill all zombies, with increasing vigor
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kill-zombies.sh
#! /bin/sh
for current_signal in HUP TERM KILL SEGV;
do
ZOMBIES=$(ps -A -ostat,ppid | sed -rn 's/^[zZ][^[:space:]]*[[:space:]]*([0-9]+)/\1/p' | sort -nu);
[ -n "$ZOMBIES" ] && { kill -s $current_signal $ZOMBIES; sleep 2; } || true;
done
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