[geeks] Re: [SunRescue] Help!

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:08:26PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:

[re the name of killall on Deadrat and Deviant]

> They could call it "pleaseAskTheseProgramsToStop", but that is too wordy for Unix - maybe "patpts"? ;^)

It would be nice if it were an option to kill(1).  eg,
  kill WHATEVER -n foo
to send a WHATEVER signal to all processes *n*amed foo.

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