[NBLUG/talk] Finding files containing a string

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:16:39AM -0800, Steve Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:42:39 -0800, Scott Doty <scott at sonic.net> wrote:
> > Warning:  this does not work on Sun's!  "killall" on Solaris kills all
> > processes except the shell invoking it -- a very dangerous command on a Sun.
> 
> Also on SCO =)  I found out the hardway.

pkill is available on both Linux and Solaris and can do pretty much the same
thing as Linux's "killall".

Though, it uses a regex on the name instead of an exact match, so you'll
want to use "pkill ^gaim$" instead of "killall gaim".

pkill also has the added bonus feature that you can do stuff like "pkill -u
bob" to kill all of bob's processes. (read the manpage)  There's also
"pgrep", which takes the same syntax as "pkill" but just tells you pids
instead of killing things.
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