Re: [orca-list] seems that the --replace switch is not working in the latest orca

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Yes, thee is definitely always more to learn. I used to use killall as 
well until I learned about pkill some years ago. Just like with killall, 
it is nice to only have to know the name of the process which is running 
rather than the process ID.

On 05/12/2012 09:37 PM, Jason White wrote:
> Steve Holmes<steve holmes88 gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hmm, I always used the kill command without the leading 'p' but then I had
> > to include a process ID; does pill do the same thing but not need an
> > explicit process ID? I guess I'm still learning new things even after this
> > many years of using Unix based systems:).
> I just looked up the manual page and it seems to be even more useful than
> killall, which is what I normally use for this purpose. The same manual page
> documents the pgrep command too, which could be very useful in dealing with,
> for example, non-working desktop environment installations.
>
> There's always more to learn.
>
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