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

[Joachim Backes]

On 03/01/2014 01:06 PM, poma wrote:
> 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
> 

 /usr/bin/kill --list
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT IOT BUS FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM
TERM STKFLT CHLD CLD CONT STOP TSTP TTIN TTOU URG XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF
WINCH IO POLL PWR UNUSED SYS RT<N> RTMIN+<N> RTMAX-<N>

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
Kernel-3.13.5-200.fc20.x86_64


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