kill(1)kill(1)Namekill - send a signal to a process
Syntaxkill [-sig] processid...
kill-l
Description
The command sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified pro‐
cesses. If a signal name or number preceded by `-' is given as first
argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate. For further infor‐
mation, see
The terminate signal kills processes that do not catch the signal;
`kill -9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be caught.
By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members in the
process group (that is, processes resulting from the current login) are
signaled. This works only if you use and not if you use To kill a
process it must either belong to you or you must be superuser.
The process number of an asynchronous process started with `&' is
reported by the shell. Process numbers can also be found by using It
allows job specifiers ``%...'' so process ID's are not as often used
as arguments. See for details.
Options-l Lists signal names. The signal names are listed by `kill -l', and
are as given in /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG
prefix.
See Alsocsh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)kill(1)
