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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Fun with ignoreeof
Message-ID: <240@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jan 88 20:40:22 GMT
References: <2248@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <410@lakesys.UUCP> <584@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Richard Tobin)
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In article <584@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>The command
>	/bin/kill -HUP $$
>is immune to aliases, and even
>	set histchars = '$^'
>doesn't seem to break it.

I'm afraid not.  At least not in Sun 3.2, or BSD 4.2 and 4.3:

skye% alias /bin/kill 'echo hi'
skye% /bin/kill -HUP $$
hi -HUP 2060
skye%

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