Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:31:48 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin Message-ID: <p06020470bc87d842ec65@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403241550160.63489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403241550160.63489-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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At 3:51 PM -0800 3/24/04, Julian Elischer wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > The `pkill' command searches the process table on the running > > system and signals all processes that match the criteria given > > on the command line. > >so pkill is like killall but more flexible? > >how about you make killall a special case of pkill so we don't >have the duplication.. Well, at first I'll just add it and see what it takes to get it working, but then I'll see about collapsing killall into a special-case of pkill. Sounds like a good idea. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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