Daniel Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I tell bash to kill job 1, rather than pid 1 ?
man bash, in the section JOB CONTROL: # There are a number of ways to refer to a job in the shell. The # character % introduces a job name. Job number n may be referred to # as %n. A job may also be referred to using a prefix of the name # used to start it, or using a substring that appears in its command # line. For example, %ce refers to a stopped ce job. "kill %1" kills job 1; "kill 1" kills process 1. Chet: it would probably be helpful to change that second sentence to "The character % introduces a job name, or jobspec." "jobspec" isn't defined anywhere as fa r as I can see. paul
