Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 02:49:02 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: "Paul C. Boyle" <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: killing a pid Message-ID: <20020301024411.B95430-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <200203010823.DAA01398@alpha.vaxxine.com>
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Paul C. Boyle wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:
> I am trying to do this
>
> kill 'cat pid.sah'
>
> but its not working.
>
> Any ideas why?
Yeah, two ideas. ` and ` :-)
This is a very common newbie mistake... You need to use backticks (`)
instead of single quotes ('). Backticks tell the shell to execute the
command inside, which is what you want in this case, to turn the
contents (via the "cat" command) of the file pid.sah into a command
line argument. Actually, for most of us, it makes perfect sense. :-)
So, kill `cat pid.sah`, not kill 'cat pid.sah'
- Ryan
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