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KILL(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual KILL(1)

NAME

kill - terminate a process with extreme prejudice

SYNOPSIS

kill [ -signo ] processid ...

DESCRIPTION

Kill sends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes. If a signal number preceded by `-' is given as first argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate (see signal(2)). This will kill processes that do not catch the signal; in particular `kill -9 ...' is a sure kill.

By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members in the process group (i.e. processes resulting from the current login) are signaled.

    The killed processes must belong to the current user unless
    he is the super-user.  To shut the system down and bring it
    up single user the super-user may use `kill -1 1'; see
    _i_n_i_t(8).

    The process number of an asynchronous process started with
    `&' is reported by the shell.  Process numbers can also be
    found by using _p_s(1).

SEE ALSO

    ps(1), kill(2), signal(2)