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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 22:22:35 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 22:22:35 +0000
commitfb1d8b3724cde10863de04d2c0884fbc5035eeef (patch)
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parent2334c79a7573e958e33d5cc7301829244e5d216f (diff)
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/killall')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/killall/killall.114
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1 b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
index 709f99b..9580d05 100644
--- a/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
+++ b/usr.bin/killall/killall.1
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ The super-user is allowed to kill any process.
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
.It Fl d | v
-Be more verbose about what will be done. For a single
+Be more verbose about what will be done.
+For a single
.Fl d
option, a list of the processes that will be sent the signal will be
printed, or a message indicating that no matching processes have been
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ Match the argument
.Ar procname
as a (case sensitive) regular expression against the names
of processes found.
-CAUTION! This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process
+CAUTION!
+This is dangerous, a single dot will match any process
running under the real UID of the caller.
.It Fl s
Show only what would be done, but do not send any signal.
@@ -120,15 +122,17 @@ is already supported by
.Xr kill 1 .
So use
.Xr kill 1
-for this job (e.g. $ kill -TERM -1 or
+for this job (e.g.\& $ kill -TERM -1 or
as root $ echo kill -TERM -1 | su -m <user>)
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The
.Nm
command will respond with a short usage message and exit with a status
-of 2 in case of a command error. A status of 1 will be returned if
+of 2 in case of a command error.
+A status of 1 will be returned if
either no matching process has been found or not all processes have
-been signalled successfully. Otherwise, a status of 0 will be
+been signalled successfully.
+Otherwise, a status of 0 will be
returned.
.Pp
Diagnostic messages will only be printed if requested by
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