J M via Cygwin writes:
> Help with use of pgrep or pkill commands with full name options.
>
> I trying to use pgrep or pkill utility commands to find processes but using
> the full path names, by example, find /usr/bin/bash (package procps-ng):
>
> Then, if I use pgrep -f /usr/bin/bash, don't find nothing.
I note that on Cygwin:
pgrep -f /bin/bash
finds some but not all of my running bash processes.
pgrep -a bash
finds all of them.
I leave it to others to explain why /usr/bin/bash doesn't work.
I note that on (Debian) Linux the results of the above alternatives
_also_ differ, but that pgrep -f /usr/bin/bash and pgrep -f /bin/bash
both work and give the same results.
ht
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