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iyulaev on June 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big De...

What is the difference between kill and kill -15?

Well, for one, the second isn't syntactically correct.

I can't decide what's worse, brainteasers or brainless trivia questions.

spudlyo on June 20, 2013 [–]

Pedantic nonsense. Most of the time when you're using kill you're going be using the bash shell built-in, where it is syntactically correct.

kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | jobspec] ...

Even so, with /bin/kill -sigspec is still valid and common usage, even if it is not documented in the manpage.

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