Re: SUGGESTION: kill -l could show numbers, too

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6ltje?= wrote:
> I have a suggestion for the kill builtin:
> 
> It would be nice if when you did '-l' to show the list of signal
> that it show the signal number.

Not quite as convenient, but try this function:

kill-l() {
  for i in {1..$#signals}; do
    print $((i-1))\) SIG$signals[$i]
  done | pr -t5
}

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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