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Subject: Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill",
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Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn <at> freenet.de> writes:

> I'm wondering why we even need killall when pkill seems to have the same
> basic functionality and is located in /bin (and /rescue) rather than /usr/bin?

I like killall because of its -v (verbose) option.  It lets me know what killall
killed.  You just inspired me to request the pkill upstream maintainer to add a
similar option.  My feature request is at http://bugs.debian.org/562111 .

-Jason