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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:13:01 +0100
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Subject:	Re: We have a "cygstart" -- why not a "cygstop"?
From:	Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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On 13 June 2011 09:49, SJ Wright wrote:
> Or does such an idea go too much against the grain of "let's keep Cygwin as
> much of a Unix as possible?"
>
> At the very least, it would cut through all the rigamorole of "kill"-ing
> pids that were likely to return errors.
>
> Comments?

Here you go:

alias cygstop '/bin/kill -f'

(See also 'man kill'. Unfortunately Cygwin's version of 'kill' is
usually hidden by a shell builtin, which is why the /bin/ is needed.)

Regards,
Andy

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