KILL

KILL

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SIGNALS NOTES EXAMPLES SEE ALSO STANDARDS AUTHOR

NAME

kill - report process status

SYNOPSIS

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 -KILL.

SIGNALS

The signals listed below may be available for use with kill. When known constant, numbers and default behavior are shown.

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 -l 11 kill 123 543 2341 3453

SEE ALSO

top(1) skill(1) kill(2) renice(1) nice(1)

STANDARDS

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

AUTHOR

Albert Cahalan

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