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Posted May 26th, 2004 in Man Pages (Updated May 24th, 2007)

man page for the unix linux bsd command kill

KILL(1)                          User Commands                         KILL(1)



NAME
       kill - send signals to processes, or list signals

SYNOPSIS
       kill [-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL] PID...
       kill -l [SIGNAL]...
       kill -t [SIGNAL]...

DESCRIPTION
       Send signals to processes, or list signals.

       Mandatory  arguments  to  long  options are mandatory for short options
       too.

       -s, --signal=SIGNAL, -SIGNAL

              specify the name or number of the signal to be sent

       -l, --list
              list signal names, or convert signal names to/from numbers

       -t, --table
              print a table of signal information

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

       SIGNAL may be a signal name like `HUP', or a signal number like `1', or
       an exit status of a process terminated by a signal.  PID is an integer;
       if negative it identifies a process group.

       NOTE: your shell may have its own version of kill, which usually super‐
       sedes  the  version described here.  Please refer to your shell's docu‐
       mentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR
       Written by Paul Eggert.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software.  You may redistribute copies  of  it  under  the
       terms       of       the      GNU      General      Public      License
       .  There is NO WARRANTY,  to  the
       extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       kill(2)

       The  full documentation for kill is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and kill programs are properly installed  at  your  site,  the
       command

              info kill

       should give you access to the complete manual.



kill 6.4                         November 2006                         KILL(1)

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