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NAME

       kill - send a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS

       kill [options] <pid> [...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  default  signal  for  kill  is  TERM.   Use -l or -L to list available signals.  Particularly useful
       signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0.  Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9,
       -SIGKILL  or  -KILL.  Negative PID values may be used to choose whole process groups; see the PGID column
       in ps command output.  A PID of -1 is special; it indicates all processes except the kill process  itself
       and init.

OPTIONS

       <pid> [...]
              Send signal to every <pid> listed.

       -<signal>
       -s <signal>
       --signal <signal>
              Specify the signal to be sent.  The signal can be specified by using name or number.  The behavior
              of signals is explained in signal(7) manual page.

       -l, --list [signal]
              List signal names.  This option has optional argument, which will convert signal number to  signal
              name, or other way round.

       -L, --table
              List signal names in a nice table.

       NOTES  Your  shell  (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command.  You may need to run the
              command described here as /bin/kill to solve the conflict.

EXAMPLES

       kill -9 -1
              Kill all processes you can kill.

       kill -l 11
              Translate number 11 into a signal name.

       kill -L
              List the available signal choices in a nice table.

       kill 123 543 2341 3453
              Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes.

SEE ALSO

       kill(2), killall(1), nice(1), pkill(1), renice(1), signal(7), skill(1)

STANDARDS

       This command meets appropriate standards. The -L flag is Linux-specific.

AUTHOR

       Albert Cahalan ⟨albert@users.sf.net⟩ wrote kill in 1999 to replace a bsdutils one that was not  standards
       compliant.  The util-linux one might also work correctly.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please send bug reports to ⟨procps@freelists.org