On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Benny Lofgren <bl-li...@lofgren.biz> wrote: >> Hmmm. Two of (arguably) the four best known BSD distributions have it. >> The idea of -i meaning case insensitivity is there already in other (1) >> commands, so I'd say it makes sense to add. >> >> From a practical standpoint, I'm all for it. I've missed killing things >> because of this. > > Me personally, I'm scared as hell using pkill at all. I've never been > concerned with not killing *enough*, it's almost always that I'm afraid > I'm killing too *much*...
Funny enough, when pkill was first added I added an option to confirm each kill. Guess what letter it used? That's right, -i, modeled after rm.
