Debian Bug report logs - #562111
[pkill] Add a verbose-output option

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From: "Jason A. Spiro" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: pkill: Add a verbose-output option

Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:15:50 -0500

Package: procps
Severity: wishlist
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Albert, thanks for maintaining procps.  It would be great if you could
please add an option which would work like killall's -v, telling users
output like "Killed nc(1327) with signal 15\nKilled nc(1335) with
signal 15".

If you make such an option, please don't call it -V:  that would
encourage people to accidentally use -v when they didn't want to.
AzaToth suggests that the letter -D (for "Debug") would work well.

Cheers,
-Jason

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From: "Jason A. Spiro" <[email protected]>

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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 03:56:45 -0500

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A few days ago http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers/38636/focus=38645
, jhell <[email protected]> wrote that -l (dash-ell) would be the ideal
choice for the name for this option, because pgrep uses -l for
something similar.  I think that jhell's idea is better than mine:  -l
is a better than -D because you don't need to use the Shift key to
type -l.

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From: "Jason A. Spiro" <[email protected]>

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Subject: Re:

Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:27:03 -0500

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Let's wait and see what option letter FreeBSD ends up choosing, and
let's use the same letter for pkill on Linux.  This will keep things
consistent between OSes.

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From: Craig Small <[email protected]>

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Subject: pkill: Add a verbose-output option

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:26:16 +1000

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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.3.2-1

Upstream procps 3.3.2 added the pkill -e option which will echo the
matching processes that are killed. That was done in 2012 but missed
closing this bug since then.

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