Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin

[drosih at rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn)]

At 3:51 PM -0800 3/24/04, Julian Elischer wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>  >    The `pkill' command searches the process table on the running
>  > system and signals all processes that match the criteria given
>  > on the command line.
>
>so pkill is like killall but more flexible?
>
>how about you make killall a special case of pkill so we don't
>have the duplication..

Well, at first I'll just add it and see what it takes to get it
working, but then I'll see about collapsing killall into a
special-case of pkill.  Sounds like a good idea.

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