I spent way too much time on this one, and I think run-this-one doesn't make sense with a regular expression.
I understand the desire to use a regexp to find the process(es) to kill, but keep in mind that the same regular expression is then used to start a new copy. So if you have, for example: "/bin/mycommand 1234" and "/bin/mycommand 5678" running And you want to run another one, and kill the two above, this won't work: run-this-one /bin/mycommand "(1234|5678)" It will kill the two other instances, but will launch a new one with the literal argument "(1234|5678)". That doesn't make sense, or I didn't understand this at all. Also, your example "/tmp/sleepforever a|b" is missing (), no? Or else it's an OR between "/tmp/sleepforever a" and "b"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2081328 Title: run-this-one fails on commands that include some regex patterns To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/run-one/+bug/2081328/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
