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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