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docs: some manpage fixes

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Some editorial changes so the man pages follow the standards.

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 procps#173
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Craig Small
2020-06-04 22:25:26 +10:00
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.\"
.\" Copyright 2000 Kjetil Torgrim Homme
.\" 2017 Craig Small
.\" 2017-2020 Craig Small
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.TH PGREP "1" "2020-05-17" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
.TH PGREP "1" "2020-06-04" "procps-ng" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
pgrep, pkill \- look up or signal processes based on name and other attributes
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -141,29 +141,27 @@ context. In
context this option is disabled.
.TP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-exact\fR\fR
Only match processes whose names (or command line if \-f is specified)
Only match processes whose names (or command lines if \fB\-f\fR is specified)
.B exactly
match the
.IR pattern .
.TP
\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-pidfile\fR \fIfile\fR
Read
.IR PID 's
from file. This option is perhaps more useful for
Read \fIPID\fRs from \fIfile\fR. This option is perhaps more useful for
.B pkill
than
.BR pgrep .
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-logpidfile\fR
Fail if pidfile (see -F) not locked.
Fail if pidfile (see \fB\-F\fR) not locked.
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-runstates\fR \fID,R,S,Z,\fP...
Match only processes which match the process state.
.TP
\fB\-\-ns \fIpid\fP
Match processes that belong to the same namespaces. Required to run as
root to match processes from other users. See \-\-nslist for how to limit
which namespaces to match.
root to match processes from other users. See \fB\-\-nslist\fR for how to
limit which namespaces to match.
.TP
\fB\-\-nslist \fIname\fP,...
Match only the provided namespaces. Available namespaces:
@@ -234,7 +232,7 @@ Fatal error: out of memory etc.
.PD
.SH NOTES
The process name used for matching is limited to the 15 characters present in
the output of /proc/\fIpid\fP/stat. Use the \-f option to match against the
the output of /proc/\fIpid\fP/stat. Use the \fB\-f\fR option to match against the
complete command line, /proc/\fIpid\fP/cmdline. Threads may not have the
same process name as the parent process but will have the same command line.
.PP