Fun fact: -v typically stands for verbose except when using any "grep-like" utilities such as pgrep, pkill, etc.
[edit] forgot to mention that for grep-like utilities -v negates the match.
This led to an unfortunate incident in which I attempted to get verbose output from pkill and instead killed every single process on the machine except for my target. To make it worse I had no console access so I had to email another team to reboot and explain what I did.
[edit] forgot to mention that for grep-like utilities -v negates the match.
This led to an unfortunate incident in which I attempted to get verbose output from pkill and instead killed every single process on the machine except for my target. To make it worse I had no console access so I had to email another team to reboot and explain what I did.