Comments on: Kill Processes Using Wildcards with pkill in OS X http://osxdaily.com/2012/10/18/kill-process-wildcards-pkill-mac-os-x/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Sat, 18 May 2013 19:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Marc http://osxdaily.com/2012/10/18/kill-process-wildcards-pkill-mac-os-x/#comment-438872 Marc Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:05:54 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=33945#comment-438872 Your wildcard examples suffer from a flaw... the shell will attempt to expand the wildcards before pkill sees them. take this example: pkill C* It will not work if the current working directory has any file that starts with a capital C. The shell will expand the wildcard expression and pkill will be given the names of the files in your current working directory that start with C, not the expression 'C*'. Your wildcard examples suffer from a flaw… the shell will attempt to expand the wildcards before pkill sees them. take this example: pkill C*

It will not work if the current working directory has any file that starts with a capital C. The shell will expand the wildcard expression and pkill will be given the names of the files in your current working directory that start with C, not the expression ‘C*’.

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