Name
kill
Synopsis
kill [options] ID
Description
Terminate each specified process ID or job ID. You must own the process or be a privileged user. This built-in is similar to /bin/kill described in Chapter 3 but also allows symbolic job names. Stubborn processes can be killed using signal 9.
Options
- -l
List the signal names. (Used by itself.)
- -signal
The signal number or name, without the SIG prefix (e.g., HUP, not SIGHUP). The command kill -l prints a list of the available signal names. The list varies by system architecture; for a PC-based system, it looks like this:
%
kill -l
HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT BUS FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STKFLT CHLD CONT STOP TSTP TTIN TTOU URG XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF WINCH POLL PWR UNUSEDThe signals and their numbers are defined in /usr/include/asm/signal.h; look in that file to find the signals that apply to your system.
Examples
If you’ve issued the following command:
44% nroff -ms report &
you can terminate it in any of the following ways:
45%kill 19536
Process ID 45%kill %
Current job 45%kill %1
Job number 1 45%kill %nr
Initial string 45%kill %?report
Matching string
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