[Gllug] Flavours end - Linux begins?

[Dave Cridland [Home]]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:08:32 +1300
Jonathan Harker <jharker at massey.ac.nz> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:12 am, Dave Cridland [Home] wrote:
> > Like ps being sortable, and the existence of pkill and pgrep. Those
> > three have saved me a huge amount of typing.
> 
> WOW! Thanks for the tip on pgrep, I just KNEW there should be a tool for
>    ps -ef | grep processname | awk '{ print $2 }'
> and 
>    kill `ps -ef | grep processname | awk '{ print $2 }'`
> 
> I had these as little bash scripts...

Needs to be [p]rocessname anyway, otherwise the regexp matches itself.

pgrep never matches itself, and has *lots* more control for what,
exactly, you're searching, which is handy. pkill is simply pgrep | xargs
kill, in effect, but slightly neater.

Dave.

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