Bug#480852: [checkbashisms] `kill -9` is considered as a bashism

Package: devscripts Version: 2.10.26 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/checkbashisms checkbashisms considers `kill -9` as a bashism: $ echo #!/bin/sh tmp $ echo kill -9 foo tmp $ checkbashisms tmp possible bashism in tmp line 2 (kill -[0-9] or -[A-Z]): kill -9 foo Actually, according to

Bug#480852: [checkbashisms] `kill -9` is considered as a bashism

Hi, Jakub Wilk wrote: [...] checkbashisms considers `kill -9` as a bashism: $ echo #!/bin/sh tmp $ echo kill -9 foo tmp $ checkbashisms tmp possible bashism in tmp line 2 (kill -[0-9] or -[A-Z]): kill -9 foo Actually, according to POSIX, such a usage is perfectly valid: POSIX itself