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Subject:	RE: Problem with kill
Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:59:01 +0100
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On 22 September 2006 11:31, Eric Lilja wrote:


> $ kill -v
> bash: kill: v: invalid signal specification
> 
> mikael AT ditt-9624b96a3d ~/jobb/example_programs/simple_iterator
> $ kill --version
> bash: kill: -version: invalid signal specification
> 
> mikael AT ditt-9624b96a3d ~/jobb/example_programs/simple_iterator
> $ whereis kill
> kill: /bin/kill.exe /usr/bin/kill.exe /usr/share/man/man1/kill.1.gz
> 
> What am I doing wrong? (cygcheck.out attached)


  Heh.  You ran into a well-known gotcha.

dk AT rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> type kill
kill is a shell builtin
dk AT rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> type /bin/kill
/bin/kill is /bin/kill
dk AT rainbow /artimi/software/firmware> /bin/kill -v
kill (cygwin) 1.14
Process Signaller
Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Compiled on Jan 20 2006
dk AT rainbow /artimi/software/firmware>


  Same thing goes for 'echo' very often! :)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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