Re: pkill

[Paul Eggert]

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> kill [-s SIG | -SIGNAL] PID | NAME
>
> Personally, I think this makes more sense than introducing pkill (or
> for that matter, killall).  And is cleaner.  What do people think
> about this?

Most people use the builtin kill command of the shell, so you'll have
to change Bash as well as coreutils.

If the program's name is actually a number, the syntax would be
ambiguous.  Presumably you could have a --match-name option for these
rare, ambiguous cases.

>From a coreutils point of view, there'd be a lot of code to add, since
you need the functionality of "ps", which is not in coreutils now.