KILL(1) General Commands Manual KILL(1)
NAME
kill - send a signal to a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [-n] process
OPTIONS
-n Signal number to send
-NAME Named signal to send
EXAMPLES
kill 35 # Send signal 15 to process 35
kill -9 40 # Send signal 9 to process 40
kill -2 0 # Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group
kill -HUP -123 # Send a hangup to process group 123
DESCRIPTION
A signal is sent to a given process. By default signal 15 (SIGTERM) is sent. Process 0 means all the processes in the sender's process
group. A process group can be signalled by the negative value of the process group ID. Signals may be numerical, or the name of the sig-
nal without SIG.
SEE ALSO
kill(2), sigaction(2).
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