pkill(1): Add EXAMPLES section to man page

Add a dozen of examples to the EXAMPLES section for pgrep(1) and pkill(1).

Flags covered: -f, -F, -n, -j, -l, -S, -x

Approved by:	mandoc (bcr@)
Differential Revision:	pkill(1): Add EXAMPLES section to man page
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Fernando Apesteguía 2020-10-05 13:52:31 +00:00
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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 December 3, 2018
.Dd October 5, 2020
.Dt PKILL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -270,6 +270,111 @@ Invalid options were specified on the command line.
.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