Re: pkill

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:

>>    Remember, POSIX requires kill(1) to be a shell builtin, because it
>>    must support job syntax ("kill %1", for example), which cannot be
>>    done with normal POSIX child process semantics.
>> 
>> In that case, one can make the builtin kill a wrapper, that parses the
>> command line, and if it see %1 it replaces it with the process job pid
>> and passes that to the real kill, or the builtin kill if no system
>> kill utiltiy exists.
>
> Write your own shell function that does just that.  You can
> use 'jobs -p' to find the process number.

Or 'jobs -x' to make that a one-liner.

Andreas.

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