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--- Begin Message ---Package: procps Severity: wishlist hi, it might, in certain cases, be handy to have a grep like -c option in order to be able to sum up the matched processes, like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./pgrep -c getty 6 diff for pgrep.c and pgrep.1 attached. bye, - michael--- procps-3.2.5/pgrep.1 2004-07-15 15:58:46.000000000 +0200 +++ procps-3.2.5.own/pgrep.1 2005-07-29 12:17:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ .SH OPTIONS .TP +\-c +Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching processes. +.TP \-d \fIdelimiter\fP Sets the string used to delimit each process ID in the output (by default a newline). (\fBpgrep\fP only.)--- procps-3.2.5/pgrep.c 2004-10-19 19:53:47.000000000 +0200 +++ procps-3.2.5.own/pgrep.c 2005-07-29 12:39:26.000000000 +0200 @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static int opt_newest = 0; static int opt_negate = 0; static int opt_exact = 0; +static int opt_count = 0; static int opt_signal = SIGTERM; static const char *opt_delim = "\n"; @@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ if (i_am_pkill) fprintf (stderr, "Usage: pkill [-SIGNAL] [-fvx] "); else - fprintf (stderr, "Usage: pgrep [-flvx] [-d DELIM] "); + fprintf (stderr, "Usage: pgrep [-cflvx] [-d DELIM] "); fprintf (stderr, "[-n|-o] [-P PPIDLIST] [-g PGRPLIST] [-s SIDLIST]\n" "\t[-u EUIDLIST] [-U UIDLIST] [-G GIDLIST] [-t TERMLIST] " "[PATTERN]\n"); @@ -501,7 +502,7 @@ strcat (opts, "ld:"); } - strcat (opts, "fnovxP:g:s:u:U:G:t:?V"); + strcat (opts, "cfnovxP:g:s:u:U:G:t:?V"); while ((opt = getopt (argc, argv, opts)) != -1) { switch (opt) { @@ -581,6 +582,9 @@ usage (opt); opt_negate = 1; break; + case 'c': + opt_count = 1; + break; // Solaris -x, the standard, does ^(regexp)$ // OpenBSD -x, being broken, does a plain string case 'x': @@ -617,13 +621,17 @@ if (kill (procs[i].num, opt_signal) != -1) continue; if (errno==ESRCH) continue; // gone now, which is OK fprintf (stderr, "pkill: %ld - %s\n", - procs[i].num, strerror (errno)); + procs[i].num, strerror (errno)); } } else { - if (opt_long) - output_strlist (procs); - else - output_numlist (procs); + if (opt_count) { + fprintf(stdout, "%d\n", procs[0].num); + } else { + if (opt_long) + output_strlist (procs); + else + output_numlist (procs); + } } return ((procs[0].num) == 0 ? 1 : 0); }
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--- Begin Message ---hi, seems like this feature has been added at some point in the past, even i cant find any entry either in the upstream or debian changelog reagarding it. Nevertheless, im closing this bugreport. bye, - michael
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