jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > You see I was trying to make very special arguments to sleep so that I > can make sure to kill the one I want > pkill -u jidanni -fx sleep\ 000022 > It is not clear if that will still work. Maybe the man/info page should > say a regexp that matches all valid args.
BTW, reading the manual I spotted a small problem. Here's the fix: >From 2e8de846204e36a5876d00605caf7457a79fb552 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:02:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix wording in warning about potential conflict with built-in * doc/coreutils.texi (mayConflictWithShellBuiltIn): Fix wording. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 8a1b3b6..746ab8c 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ Common options @macro mayConflictWithShellBuiltIn{cmd} @cindex conflicts with shell built-ins @cindex built-in shell commands, conflicts with -Due to shell aliases and built-in @command{\cmd\} command, using an +Due to shell aliases and built-in @command{\cmd\} functions, using an unadorned @command{\cmd\} interactively or in a script may get you different functionality than that described here. Invoke it via @command{env} (i.e., @code{env \cmd\ @dots{}}) to avoid interference -- 1.7.3.5