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On Tuesday 07 December 2004 3:13 pm, David Hummel wrote: > It's generally a bad idea to give a script the same name as a system > command (unless it's some kind of wrapper for that command, and even > then be careful). Just add .sh, .bash, .pl, whatever. I actually discuss this in the Linux course I teach. If you noted, the name of the script is Kill. Yes, kill.sh would work very nicely too, but Kill is more into the Unix paradigm where every command should be a few letters to type as possible. (Comes from my ASR33 days). -- Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com> Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243
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