Index: bin/pkill/pkill.1 =================================================================== --- bin/pkill/pkill.1 +++ bin/pkill/pkill.1 @@ -270,6 +270,111 @@ .It 3 An internal error occurred. .El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Show the pid of the process holding the +.Pa /tmp/.X0-lock +pid file: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -F /tmp/.X0-lock +1211 +.Ed +.Pp +Show the pid and the name of the process including kernel threads in the +search: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -lS vnlru +37 vnlru +.Ed +.Pp +Search for processes including kernel threads that match the extended regular +expression pattern: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -S 'crypto.*[2-3]' +20 +19 +6 +5 +.Ed +.Pp +Show long output for firefox processes: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -l firefox +1312 firefox +1309 firefox +1288 firefox +1280 firefox +1279 firefox +1278 firefox +1277 firefox +1264 firefox +.Ed +.Pp +Same as above but just showing the pid of the most recent process: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -n firefox +1312 +.Ed +.Pp +Look for vim processes. +Match against the full argument list: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -f vim +44968 +30790 +.Ed +.Pp +Same as above but matching against the +.Ql list +word and showing the full argument list: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -f -l list +30790 vim list.txt +.Ed +.Pp +Send +.Va SIGSTOP +signal to processes that are an exact match: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pkill -SIGSTOP -f -x "vim list.txt" +.Ed +.Pp +Without +.Fl f +names over 19 characters will silently fail: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ vim this_is_a_very_long_file_name & +[1] 36689 +$ + +[1]+ Stopped vim this_is_a_very_long_file_name +$ pgrep "vim this" +$ +.Ed +.Pp +Same as above using the +.Fl f +flag: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -f "vim this" +36689 +.Ed +.Pp +Find the +.Xr top 1 +command running in any jail: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -j any top +34498 +.Ed +.Pp +Show all processes running in jail ID 58: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ pgrep -l -j58 '.*' +28397 pkg-static +28396 pkg-static +28255 sh +28254 make +.Ed .Sh COMPATIBILITY Historically the option .Dq Fl j Li 0