Re: Feature Request kill and ps

[Eric Blake]

According to Jan Girke on 2/11/2010 3:36 PM:
> Hi All
> 
> I had my thunderstorm cloud flying over my head again and managed to
> drop this mail.
> I suggest kill eatin' names instead of numbers example:
> kill 'process name'

And how exactly do you propose mapping 'process name' back to a particular
process, when there may well be more than one process with the same argv0
running at the same time?

> and ps sorting processes alphabetically example:
> ps -'free letter'

The unix philosophy is to do one thing and do it well.  What's wrong with
using 'ps | sort' to get your sorting?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden

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