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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  is  sent SIGKILL or any signal specified with the
       --signal option.

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.  Note:  the  last  started
       container  can be from other users of Podman on the host machine.  (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. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and
       Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):

       podman kill --latest

       Terminate all containers by sending KILL signal:

       podman kill --signal KILL -a

       Kill containers 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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