should "kill --list" actually work on my f20 system? [NEVER MIND]
poma
pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 12:06:54 UTC 2014
On 01.03.2014 12:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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
>
Yep! :)
$ type kill
$ type $(which kill)
$ builtin kill
$ builtin $(which kill)
$ $(which kill) -L
$ man 1 builtins
poma
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