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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