1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/samples/tailboxbg2 b/samples/tailboxbg2
index 628cb0571540..b71a6c6c42fe 100755
--- a/samples/tailboxbg2
+++ b/samples/tailboxbg2
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-# $Id: tailboxbg2,v 1.10 2012/06/29 09:51:11 tom Exp $
+# $Id: tailboxbg2,v 1.11 2019/12/11 00:11:51 tom Exp $
 
 . ./setup-vars
 
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ $DIALOG --title "TAIL BOXES" \
 
 # The --and-widget causes a tab to be emitted, but our example will only
 # write one number to stderr.
-pid=`cat $tempfile |sed -e 's/	//g'`
+pid=`sed -e 's/	//g' $tempfile`
 if test -n "$pid" ; then
 # wait a while for the background process to run
 sleep 10
 
 # now kill it
-kill -$SIG_QUIT $pid 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+kill "-$SIG_QUIT" "$pid" 2>&1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 echo "killed [$pid]"
 fi