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3.\" $FreeBSD$
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5.\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
6.\" All rights reserved.
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32.Dd December 1, 2018
32.Dd December 3, 2018
33.Dt PKILL 1
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm pgrep , pkill
37.Nd find or signal processes by name
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm pgrep
40.Op Fl LSafilnoqvx

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236will quietly fail.
237.Pp
238Note that a running
239.Nm pgrep
240or
241.Nm pkill
242process will never consider itself nor system processes (kernel threads) as
243a potential match.
33.Dt PKILL 1
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm pgrep , pkill
37.Nd find or signal processes by name
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm pgrep
40.Op Fl LSafilnoqvx

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236will quietly fail.
237.Pp
238Note that a running
239.Nm pgrep
240or
241.Nm pkill
242process will never consider itself nor system processes (kernel threads) as
243a potential match.
244.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
245The Sun Solaris implementation utilised procfs to obtain process information.
246This implementation utilises
247.Xr kvm 3
248instead.
244.Sh EXIT STATUS
245The
246.Nm pgrep
247and
248.Nm pkill
249utilities
250return one of the following values upon exit:
251.Bl -tag -width indent

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271is deprecated, and its use is discouraged in favor of
272.Dq Fl j Li any .
273.Sh SEE ALSO
274.Xr kill 1 ,
275.Xr killall 1 ,
276.Xr ps 1 ,
277.Xr flock 2 ,
278.Xr kill 2 ,
249.Sh EXIT STATUS
250The
251.Nm pgrep
252and
253.Nm pkill
254utilities
255return one of the following values upon exit:
256.Bl -tag -width indent

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276is deprecated, and its use is discouraged in favor of
277.Dq Fl j Li any .
278.Sh SEE ALSO
279.Xr kill 1 ,
280.Xr killall 1 ,
281.Xr ps 1 ,
282.Xr flock 2 ,
283.Xr kill 2 ,
284.Xr kvm 3,
279.Xr sigaction 2 ,
280.Xr pidfile 3 ,
281.Xr re_format 7
282.\" Xr signal 7
283.Sh HISTORY
284The
285.Nm pkill
286and
287.Nm pgrep
288utilities
289first appeared in
290.Nx 1.6 .
291They are modelled after utilities of the same name that appeared in Sun
292Solaris 7.
293They made their first appearance in
294.Fx 5.3 .
295.Sh AUTHORS
296.An Andrew Doran Aq Mt ad@NetBSD.org
285.Xr sigaction 2 ,
286.Xr pidfile 3 ,
287.Xr re_format 7
288.\" Xr signal 7
289.Sh HISTORY
290The
291.Nm pkill
292and
293.Nm pgrep
294utilities
295first appeared in
296.Nx 1.6 .
297They are modelled after utilities of the same name that appeared in Sun
298Solaris 7.
299They made their first appearance in
300.Fx 5.3 .
301.Sh AUTHORS
302.An Andrew Doran Aq Mt ad@NetBSD.org