使用psutil使用python非常容易做到这一点。只要用pip安装psutil，你就有了一整套进程操作工具:

def killChildren(pid):
    parent = psutil.Process(pid)
    for child in parent.get_children(True):
        if child.is_running():
            child.terminate()

修改后的志刚回答:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eu

killtree() {
    local pid
    for pid; do
        kill -stop $pid
        local cpid
        for cpid in $(pgrep -P $pid); do
            killtree $cpid
        done
        kill $pid
        kill -cont $pid
        wait $pid 2>/dev/null || true
   done
}

cpids() {
    local pid=$1 options=${2:-} space=${3:-}
    local cpid
    for cpid in $(pgrep -P $pid); do
        echo "$space$cpid"
        if [[ "${options/a/}" != "$options" ]]; then
            cpids $cpid "$options" "$space  "
        fi
    done
}

while true; do sleep 1; done &
cpid=$!
for i in $(seq 1 2); do
    cpids $$ a
    sleep 1
done
killtree $cpid
echo ---
cpids $$ a

ps -o pid= --ppid $PPID | xargs kill -9 

根据志刚的回答，这可以避免自我毁灭:

init_killtree() {
    local pid=$1 child

    for child in $(pgrep -P $pid); do
        init_killtree $child
    done
    [ $pid -ne $$ ] && kill -kill $pid
}

如果你想按名称杀死一个进程:

killall -9 -g someprocessname

or

pgrep someprocessname | xargs pkill -9 -g

谢谢你们的智慧。我的脚本在退出时留下了一些子进程，而否定提示使事情变得更容易。我写这个函数是为了在其他脚本中使用:

# kill my group's subprocesses:          killGroup
# kill also myself:                      killGroup -x
# kill another group's subprocesses:     killGroup N  
# kill that group all:                   killGroup -x N
# N: PID of the main process (= process group ID).

function killGroup () {
    local prid mainpid
    case $1 in
        -x) [ -n "$2" ] && kill -9 -$2 || kill -9 -$$ ;;
        "") mainpid=$$ ;;
         *) mainpid=$1 ;;
    esac
    prid=$(ps ax -o pid,pgid | grep $mainpid)
    prid=${prid//$mainpid/}
    kill -9 $prid 2>/dev/null
    return
}

欢呼。