I don't think the -l flag to pkill is useful. It's behavior is oddly
different from pgrep -l (and more different with pgrep/pkill -f). Or
rather, it's not just long output, but also turns on verbose mode when
otherwise nothing would be printed. The only use case I can think of
is did I kill the
as they
are, I think allowing -l for both is helpful.
I agree the output is inconstistant, but I'd rather have that fixed (if
possible) than it being removed.
$ sleep 50
[1] 2673
$ pgrep -fl sleep
25664 sleep 5
2673 sleep 50
$ pgrep -fl 'sleep 50'
2673 sleep 50
$ pkill -l 'sleep 50'
$ pgrep -fl 'sleep
-fl 'sleep 50'
2673 sleep 50
$ pkill -l 'sleep 50'
$ pgrep -fl 'sleep 50'
2673 sleep 50
$ #fuck
$ pkill -f 'sleep 50'
[1] + Terminated sleep 50
This is exactly the problem I experience. I didn't want to rely solely
on I can't remember which flag to use, but yes, that is the root
