Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin

From: Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe_at_nsu.ru)
Date: 03/25/04

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    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:53:14 +0600
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

    On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:51:22PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
    >
    >
    > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    >
    > > At 4:11 PM -0500 3/24/04, John Baldwin wrote:
    > > >On Wednesday 24 March 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    > > > > I noticed the upcoming version of OpenBSD will add the commands
    > > >> `pkill' and `pgrep', which they picked up from NetBSD. These
    > > >> commands also exist in Solaris and Linux. Anyone mind if I add
    > > >> them to FreeBSD? I'd just pick up the versions from NetBSD, and
    > > > > make whatever changes are needed for them to work on FreeBSD.
    > > >
    > > >What do they do?
    > >
    > > Oh. Yeah, it might help if I said something about that...
    > >
    > > The short answer:
    > >
    > > The `pgrep' command searches the process table on the running system
    > > and prints the process IDs of all processes that match the criteria
    > > given on the command line. Criteria includes matching against the
    > > process-name, or matching against the full-argument list of the
    > > processes.

    I've been using alias "psg = ps auxlww | grep" for pretty much the same
    purpose. Is there some very strong reasoning behind bringing in some
    new facility?

    > >
    > > The `pkill' command searches the process table on the running
    > > system and signals all processes that match the criteria given on
    > > the command line.
    > >
    > > Note that a running `pgrep' or `pkill' process will never consider
    > > itself nor system processes (kernel threads) as a potential match.
    >
    >
    > so pkill is like killall but miore flexible?
    >
    > how about you make killall a special case of pkill so we don't have the
    > duplication..

    Seconded here. Frankly, I tend to go against populating base system
    with utilities of not so strict orthogonality.

    ./danfe
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