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NAME
       kill - send a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS
       kill [options]  [...]

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 or -KILL.	Negative PID  val‐
       ues may be used to choose whole process groups; see the PGID column in ps command output.  A PID of -1 is special; it indi‐
       cates all processes except the kill process itself and init.

OPTIONS
        [...]
	      Send signal to every  listed.

       -
       -s 
       --signal 
	      Specify the signal to be sent.  The signal can be specified by using name or number.  The  behavior  of  signals	is
	      explained in signal(7) manual page.

       -l, --list [signal]
	      List signal names.  This option has optional argument, which will convert signal number to signal name, or other way
	      round.

       -L, --table
	      List signal names in a nice table.


       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 all processes you can kill.

       kill -l 11
	      Translate number 11 into a signal name.

       kill -L
	      List the available signal choices in a nice table.

       kill 123 543 2341 3453
	      Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes.

SEE ALSO
       kill(2), killall(1), nice(1), pkill(1), renice(1), signal(7), skill(1)

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

AUTHOR
       Albert  Cahalan	⟨albert@users.sf.net⟩  wrote kill in 1999 to replace a bsdutils one that was not standards compliant.  The
       util-linux one might also work correctly.

REPORTING BUGS
       Please send bug reports to ⟨procps@freelists.org⟩



procps-ng						   October 2011 						   KILL(1)