Re: 5 Fun Linux Commands You Should Try At Least Once

Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 06-04-2025, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> a écrit :

On 2025-04-05 15:44, Marc Haber wrote:

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-04-04 15:40, Marc Haber wrote:

Come on, boys, we have the 2020ies, and pgrep and pkill have been
around for two decades now.

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Care to explain? I've never used them, what's the advantage?

 
Care to look at the man pages and ask questions?

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No.
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I am an old fart myself, and I refrain from using killall since it
does different things on Solaris than on Linux.

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I don't have or do any Solaris.

 
And if you do, you'll kill all.

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That's fine.

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Same for me. I'm not using Solaris and killall always did what I wanted,
so except for a good reason, I'll keep using it.

The good reason is accident prevention. Like putting on a seat belt.
Or not driving on the other side of the road even if noone's there.

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