How to kill all processes matching a name?

Question

Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to execute. But how do I actually make the shell execute them. ie.

Answer 1

pkill -x matches the process name exactly.

pkill -x amarok

pkill -f is similar but allows a regular expression pattern.

Note that pkill with no other parameters (e.g. -x, -f) will allow partial matches on process names. So "pkill amarok" would kill amarok, amarokBanana, bananaamarok, etc.

I wish -x was the default behavior!