From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: The man page for kill describes a -p switch -p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals. the kill command does not support -p, and when you run "kill" with no switches is prints this usage kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspec] which mentions no -p switch Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.man kill 2.kill Actual Results: The features described in the man page differ from those described by kill's usage statement Expected Results: They should, like, match. Additional info: If I had my whim, I'd like that -p switch to work. I could use that. Probably a good reason it's not there though.
Hi, /bin/kill is not the same as the builtin bash 'kill'. The man page is for the former, 'help kill' is for the latter