"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
