the "kill" command

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:24:12PM -0400, Brian.Kelly@Empireblue.com wrote:
>
>You have a point. I cannot kill some windows in processes "directly" within
>the bash environment either.
>But this works EVERY time:
>
>      cmd   /c  kill  --force   <PID>
>
>Try it, you'll like it.

Or, you could just do what I suggested, which is much easier than the above.

>p.s. It'd be nice if it worked "as advertised"   ;-)

It works as advertised.  You just have to meditate on the difference between
a bash built-in and an actual program like /bin/kill.exe .

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