Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:11:03 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject:   Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin
Message-ID:  <200403241611.03808.john@baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <p0602046abc879c5fe2f9@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <p0602046abc879c5fe2f9@[128.113.24.47]>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 03:21 pm, 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.
>
> (I actually had an idea of adding another option or two to `ps'
> which would have given it abilities similar to `pgrep', but once
> I noticed these I figured it would make more sense to add them)

What do they do?

-- 
John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>  <><  http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200403241611.03808.john>