Re: kill job vs. pid

2008-07-26 Thread Paul Jarc
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

kill job vs. pid

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Norton
A simple question and perhaps its simplicity explains why I can't find an answer elsewhere: How do I tell bash to kill job 1, rather than pid 1 ? What does "kill <>" mean? What if there is no jobspec <> and I type "kill <>" ? e..g. $ jobs [1]+ Stopped blahblahblah $ ps 1 P