NAME

       podman-kill - Kill the main process in one or more containers

SYNOPSIS

       podman kill [options] [container ...]

       podman container kill [options] [container ...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  main  process  inside  each  container  specified will be sent SIGKILL, or any signal
       specified with option --signal.

OPTIONS

   --all, -a
       Signal all running and paused containers.

   --cidfile=file
       Read container ID from the specified file  and  kill  the  container.   Can  be  specified
       multiple times.

   --latest, -l
       Instead  of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use
       methods other than Podman to run containers such as  CRI-O,  the  last  started  container
       could  be  from  either  of  those  methods. (This option is not available with the remote
       Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

   --signal, -s=signal
       Signal to send to  the  container.  For  more  information  on  Linux  signals,  refer  to
       signal(7).  The default is SIGKILL.

EXAMPLE

       Kill container with a given name

              podman kill mywebserver

       Kill container with a given ID

              podman kill 860a4b23

       Terminate container by sending TERM signal

              podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23

       Kill the latest container created by Podman

              podman kill --latest

       Terminate all containers by sending KILL signal

              podman kill --signal KILL -a

       Kill container using ID specified in a given files

              podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
              podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2

SEE ALSO

       podman(1), podman-stop(1)

HISTORY

       September     2017,    Originally    compiled    by    Brent    Baude    bbaude@redhat.com
       ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩

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