* On 2011-06-11 at 21:44 BST, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Jonathan Perkin wrote on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:02:05PM +0100: > > > Add -i to ignore case when matching process name > > It seems nobody picked this up, so i had a look at it. > > NetBSD has that since March 2005 (committed by sketch@).
Right, that's me, I figured it might be useful for OpenBSD too (which I started using recently). > FreeBSD copied it from NetBSD a few days later. > procps.cvs.sourceforge.net (used e.g. in Debian) does not have -i. > OpenSolaris does not have -i. > > So I'd say we shouldn't add it. > > It is not terribly useful; hopefully, you at least know > how the processes you are searching for are called. I don't remember the exact use case I required when I first added it, but I think it was for a group of similar-named processes where some where uppercase (but had the same name). > Even if not, you can use ps ax | grep -i to find out, > then use the exact name you found for pkill. > Personally, i never felt a need for pkill -i, > although i'm using pkill a lot. Well the primary use would be for pgrep (which is where I mainly use it), to avoid having to do what you typed above, but no problem if you don't feel it's worth having in OpenBSD. Cheers, -- Jonathan Perkin www.perkin.org.uk github.com/jperkin twitter.com/jperkin
