KILL(1) | User Commands | KILL(1) |
kill - send a signal to a process
kill [options] <pid> [...]
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.
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.
kill(2), killall(1), nice(1), pkill(1), renice(1), signal(7), skill(1)
This command meets appropriate standards. The -L flag is Linux-specific.
Albert Cahalan wrote kill in 1999 to replace a bsdutils one that was not standards compliant. The util-linux one might also work correctly.
Please send bug reports to procps@freelists.org
October 2011 | procps-ng |