kill
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NAME
kill - terminate a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
kill sends the specified signal to the specified process.
If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent. The
TERM signal will kill processes which do not catch this
signal. For other processes, if may be necessary to use
the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught.
Most modern shells have a builtin kill function.
OPTIONS
pid ...
Specify the list of processes that kill should sig-
nal. Each pid can be a process id, or a process
name.
-s Specify the signal to send. The signal may be
given as a signal name or number.
-p Specify that kill should only print the process id
(pid) of the named process, and should not send it
a signal.
-l Print a list of signal names. These are found in
/usr/include/linux/signal.h
SEE ALSO
bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)
AUTHOR
Taken from BSD 4.4. The ability to translate process
names to process ids was added by Salvatore Valente <sva-
lente@mit.edu>.
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