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