From: "Thomas Köhler" <jean-luc@picard.franken.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: _killall on linux
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 20:50:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000708205001.A19889@picard.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1000708170205.ZM3781@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 07:02:58PM +0200
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On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 07:02:58PM +0200,
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 8, 4:49pm, Thomas Köhler wrote:
> } Subject: _killall on linux
> }
> } Now, the problem is: _killall won't complete all process names. This is
> } not a big deal for "normal" users, but root may have to kill other
> } user's processes, too. May I suggest something like this (completing
> } _all_ process names for super users)
>
> We could put something like that [*] in, but you should note that this
> can already be configured via a style in root's .zshrc:
>
> zstyle ':completion:*:processes-names' command ps xa ho comm
Uhm. Cool. :-)
> Making that configurable is the reason for the $(_call ...) expression.
Ah... I seem to get the idea...
> It's a bit weird that it's "processes-names" rather than "process-names".
> (Was there some reason for that? It's not completing both processes and
> names, and one doesn't normally use the possessive "processes' names" to
> refer to "names of processes".)
Don't know, but it's consistent :)
_pid calls this: "... _call processes-list ..."
> [*] Rather than $( [[ "$UID" = 0 ]] && print -n xa ) I'd suggest the less
> resource-intensive ${=EUID//(#s)0(#e)/ps xa}.
Well, seen your fixed version (other mail) already:
${${EUID/(#s)0(#e)/xa}//[0-9]#/}
Well - could this go in? Would save quite a few linux users some .zshrc
editing :-)
CU,
Thomas
P.S.: No need to Cc me, I'm also subscribed to zsh-workers (I'd call
myself a very passive member of this list ;-))
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-08 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-08 14:49 Thomas Köhler
2000-07-08 17:02 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-07-08 17:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-07-08 18:50 ` Thomas Köhler [this message]
2000-07-10 7:13 Sven Wischnowsky
2000-07-10 9:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-07-10 9:43 Sven Wischnowsky
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