should "kill --list" actually work on my f20 system? [NEVER MIND]

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   first time i noticed this -- was demonstrating the "kill" command in
> a training course this week, showed "kill -l", had students check man
> page for "kill" which suggested that "kill --list" should also work,
> but:
>
> $ kill --list
> bash: kill: -list: invalid signal specification
> $
>
>   am i doing something wrong? man page also suggests:
>
>   -L, --table
>         Similar  to  -l,  but  will print signal names and their corresponding
>         numbers.
>
>   but:
>
> $ kill -L
> bash: kill: L: invalid signal specification
> $
>
>   should those work? am i missing something? is it a bug?

  argh ... just noticed that, by default, "kill" is a shell builtin so
i'm getting the builtin rather than the command.

rday

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