On 22 September 2006 11:31, Eric Lilja wrote:
> $ kill -v
> bash: kill: v: invalid signal specification
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/jobb/example_programs/simple_iterator
> $ kill --version
> bash: kill: -version: invalid signal specification
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /artimi/software/firmware> type kill
kill is a shell builtin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /artimi/software/firmware> type /bin/kill
/bin/kill is /bin/kill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /artimi/software/firmware>
Same thing goes for 'echo' very often! :)
cheers,
DaveK
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