[Novalug] Unable to terminate a vi program

[William Sutton]

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Thanks for the info :-)

William Sutton

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:31:28PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> On Sunday 26 April 2009 8:21:00 pm William Sutton wrote:
>>> Aside from the fact that I suggested killall first, and the fact that I
>>> didn't know about pkill (nice to have another tool in the tool box), ps,
>>> grep, cut, xargs, and kill are very likely to be on any UNIX you come
>>> across.  I don't know that about pkill.
>>
>> Ah, I missed the killall note in there, sorry.  I think pkill was created just
>> to avoid ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep foo | xargs kill ...because that's long.
>> I doubt it exists on your average non-GNU/Linux system, though, that's true.
>
> pkill/pgrep first appeared on Solaris and thankfully (IMO) was picked
> up by linux quite a while ago.  I've a few systems here and they are
> on:  Fedora core 3, core 5, and 9, SLES 9, Suse 9.3 & 10, Mandriva 10.2,
> and Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10.  So pretty wide spread.
>
> jl
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