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Re: pkill
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: pkill |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:30:57 -0700 |
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"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> kill [-s SIG | -SIGNAL] PID | NAME
>
> Personally, I think this makes more sense than introducing pkill (or
> for that matter, killall). And is cleaner. What do people think
> about this?
Most people use the builtin kill command of the shell, so you'll have
to change Bash as well as coreutils.
If the program's name is actually a number, the syntax would be
ambiguous. Presumably you could have a --match-name option for these
rare, ambiguous cases.
>From a coreutils point of view, there'd be a lot of code to add, since
you need the functionality of "ps", which is not in coreutils now.
- pkill, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/29
- Re: pkill, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/09/29
- Re: pkill,
Paul Eggert <=