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RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1,v
retrieving revision 1.14
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -c -r1.14 -r1.15
*** src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1	2009/06/07 22:16:43	1.14
--- src/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1	2009/07/27 14:53:54	1.15
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! .\"	$OpenBSD: pkill.1,v 1.14 2009/06/07 22:16:43 jmc Exp $
  .\"	$NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.8 2003/02/14 15:59:18 grant Exp $
  .\"
  .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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! .\"	$OpenBSD: pkill.1,v 1.15 2009/07/27 14:53:54 jmc Exp $
  .\"	$NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.8 2003/02/14 15:59:18 grant Exp $
  .\"
  .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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  .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
  .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  .\"
! .Dd $Mdocdate: June 7 2009 $
  .Dt PKILL 1
  .Os
  .Sh NAME
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  .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
  .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  .\"
! .Dd $Mdocdate: July 27 2009 $
  .Dt PKILL 1
  .Os
  .Sh NAME
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  This option is valid only when given as the first argument to
  .Nm pkill .
  .El
+ .Pp
+ If any
+ .Ar pattern
+ operands are specified, they are used as
+ regular expressions to match the command name
+ or, if
+ .Fl f
+ is specified, the full argument list of each process.
+ However, presently
+ .Ox
+ will only keep track of the first 16 characters of the command name
+ for each process.
+ Attempts to match any characters after the first 16 of a
+ command name will silently fail.
  .Pp
  Note that a running
  .Nm pgrep