On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:31:32 +0000 Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:15:58 +0200 > Benny Lofgren wrote: > > > 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*... > > Most of the time, the regex matching makes it usable. I'd rather see > that expanded than case sensitivity. >
Of course you can use ps -auxww | egrep | cut etc. etc. when needed, instead of pgrep but that sort of defies the point of pgrep.