[Gllug] how to kill

[Benedikt Heinen]

> I guess everybody knows this bash thing where you can press CTRL Z and the 
> current process goes to sleep (which is sometimes the only way to get out of 
> some stuck thing). Later on you can list your sleeping processes with jobs 
> command. Odd thing I always found is that they are numbered 1,2,3,.. Now 
> obviously, doing kill 1 is not a good idea, esp. when you are root. 
> Nevertheless, kill -- just invoked like this -- says pid or jobid. But doesnt 
> say how you specify the jobid. Tried [1] -- didnt work. Anyone?

You can refer to the jobids using %, e.g.

 	kill %1
 	kill -9 %3

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   Benedikt

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