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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 1997 13:08:08 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Lee Johnston <ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using kill
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.970910130656.7015A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3415A36A.167EB0E7@cyberworld.demon.co.uk>

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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Lee Johnston wrote:

> Hi
> 
> When I try to kill a process using kill -TERM 'cat /var/run/named.pid'

It should be:

	kill -TERM `cat /var/run/named.pid`

ie: use backquote (`) instead of single-quote (').
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