Module Name: src
Committed By: apb
Date: Fri Nov 1 07:49:00 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/usr.bin/pkill: pkill.1
Log Message:
Document that patterns are specified using extended regular expressions.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.25 -r1.26 src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1
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Modified files:
Index: src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1
diff -u src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1:1.25 src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1:1.26
--- src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1:1.25 Mon Jun 3 21:59:41 2013
+++ src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 Fri Nov 1 07:49:00 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.25 2013/06/03 21:59:41 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.26 2013/11/01 07:49:00 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd June 3, 2013
+.Dd November 1, 2013
.Dt PKILL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ The
command searches the process table on the running system and sets the
priority of all processes that match the criteria given on the command line.
.Pp
+By default, matching applies to any substring of the command name
+.Pq Va argv[0] ,
+but options may be used to change this.
+Patterns are specified using extended regular expressions (see
+.Xr re_format 7 ) .
+.Pp
The following options are available for
.Nm pkill
and
