Name
kill
Synopsis
kill [options
]IDs
Terminate each specified process ID or job ID. You must own the process or be a privileged user. See also Section 7.6 and the killall command in Chapter 3.
Options
- - signal
The signal number (from ps -f) or name (from kill -l). The default is TERM (signal number 15). With a signal number of 9, the kill is unconditional. If nothing else works to kill a process, kill -9 almost always kills it, but does not allow the process any time to clean up.
- --
Consider all subsequent strings to be arguments, not options.
- -l [arg]
With no argument, list the signal names. (Used by itself.) The argument can be a signal name or a number representing either the signal number or the exit status of a process terminated by a signal. If it is a name, the correspoding number is returned; otherwise, the corresponding name is returned.
- -n signum
Specify the signal number to send.
- -s signal
Specify signal. May be a signal name or number.
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