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 right process?" which is literally the kind of shoot
first, ask questions later behavior we should maybe not encourage.
Related: linux pkill doesn't support -l either.
Index: pkill.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -p -r1.20 pkill.1
--- pkill.1 21 Aug 2012 09:45:50 -0000 1.20
+++ pkill.1 24 Sep 2013 02:17:59 -0000
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
.Op Ar pattern ...
.Nm pkill
.Op Fl Ar signal
-.Op Fl flnoqvx
+.Op Fl fnoqvx
.Op Fl G Ar gid
.Op Fl g Ar pgrp
.Op Fl P Ar ppid
@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ Print the process name in addition to th
process.
If used in conjunction with
.Fl f ,
-print the process ID and the full argument list for each matching process
-.Pf ( Nm pgrep
-only).
+print the process ID and the full argument list for each matching process.
+This option can only be used with the
+.Nm pgrep
+command.
.It Fl n
Match only the most recently created (newest) process, if any.
Cannot be used in conjunction with
Index: pkill.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.c,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -p -r1.31 pkill.c
--- pkill.c 12 Dec 2012 22:25:21 -0000 1.31
+++ pkill.c 24 Sep 2013 02:16:37 -0000
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
criteria = 1;
break;
case 'l':
+ if (!pgrep)
+ usage();
longfmt = 1;
break;
case 'n':
@@ -446,7 +448,7 @@ usage(void)
if (pgrep)
ustr = "[-flnoqvx] [-d delim]";
else
- ustr = "[-signal] [-flnoqvx]";
+ ustr = "[-signal] [-fnoqvx]";
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s %s [-G gid] [-g pgrp] [-P ppid] [-s sid]"
"\n\t[-T rtable] [-t tty] [-U uid] [-u euid] [pattern ...]\n",
@@ -458,9 +460,6 @@ usage(void)
int
killact(struct kinfo_proc *kp, int dummy)
{
- if (longfmt && !quiet)
- printf("%d %s\n", (int)kp->p_pid, kp->p_comm);
-
if (kill(kp->p_pid, signum) == -1) {
if (errno == ESRCH)
return (STATUS_NOMATCH);
