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Comment on Killing a Subset of Processes Using One-Line of AWK, PS, GREP, XARGS, and KILL on Unix by casey

casey — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:10:49 +0000

Dave thanks for the comment. I didn't know about pkill and pgrep. As for pkill matching special switches, I'm sure it could, because the man page says the matching pattern is an extended regular expression. pkill and pgrep look like they're standard on Linux, Ubuntu at least. On my version of OS X, they're only available from MacPorts in the proctools port. For Unix triva geeks, the Linux man page says they were introduced in Sun’s Solaris 7.

Comment on Killing a Subset of Processes Using One-Line of AWK, PS, GREP, XARGS, and KILL on Unix by Dave Naffziger

Dave Naffziger — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:19:10 +0000

Nice, thanks for this. I need to increase my xargs fu. I’ve been using pkill for solving what I think is a similar problem. pkill -f ‘python my_script.py’. I don’t know whether it would handle special switches…

Comment on Emacs hexl-mode: Emacs as a Hex Editor by Peter

Peter — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:56:56 +0000

Jeez, and I thought my favorite blog was dead. Hex mode in Emacs, huh? How about ObjC in Emacs? Maybe you could do an Emacs primer?

Comment on New Article: Creating Short Papers Using LaTeX by casey

casey — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:07:43 +0000

Thank you Gabriel for noticing the missing backslashes. They were they, but I wasn’t escaping them with another backslash in the HTML.

Comment on New Article: Creating Short Papers Using LaTeX by Gabriel Farrell

Gabriel Farrell — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:10:31 +0000

Thanks for the article! Latex is a great way to separate content from style, which leads to essays that are prettier and better written.

I noticed what I believe to be an error in the article. In the document source you provide you’re missing backslashes in front of the commands. Latex needs those backslashes!