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Re: Script vs command line behaviour

From Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Script vs command line behaviour
Date 2016-10-12 15:30 +0200
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On Wednesday 12 October 2016 08:40:12 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> And stop using -9 (SIGKILL).  Forever.  Pretend it never existed.

That's a bit harsh. The tool exists for a good reason :-)

"Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that 
would also stop you from doing clever things."

    Doug Gwyn, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael Fitzgerald

And for the curious, here is why kill -9 should only be used as a last resort 
when everything else failed:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8916/when-should-i-not-kill-9-a-process

Frederic

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Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 14:40 +0200
  Re: Script vs command line behaviour Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-12 14:50 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Frédéric Marchal <frederic.marchal@wowtechnology.com> - 2016-10-12 15:30 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 15:50 +0200
      Re: Script vs command line behaviour Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-10-12 16:00 +0200
        Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 16:20 +0200
          Re: Script vs command line behaviour Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-10-12 16:30 +0200
            Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 17:10 +0200
              Re: Script vs command line behaviour Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
              Re: Script vs command line behaviour Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 16:50 +0200
                Re: Script vs command line behaviour Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2016-10-13 17:00 +0200
                Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 01:10 +0200
            Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 01:30 +0200
              Re: Script vs command line behaviour Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-14 02:50 +0200
      Re: Script vs command line behaviour Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-12 16:40 +0200
        Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 17:20 +0200
          Re: Script vs command line behaviour Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-10-12 18:00 +0200
            Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 01:20 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> - 2016-10-15 11:50 +0200
      Re: Script vs command line behaviour Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-15 15:50 +0200
  Re: Script vs command line behaviour Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-10-12 23:00 +0200
    Re: Script vs command line behaviour Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 01:00 +0200

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