kill(1) General Commands Manual kill(1)Name
kill - send a signal to a process
Syntax
kill [-sig] processid...
kill -l
Description
The command sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes. If a signal name or number preceded by `-' is given as first
argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate. For further information, see
The terminate signal kills processes that do not catch the signal; `kill -9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be caught.
By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members in the process group (that is, processes resulting from the current login) are
signaled. This works only if you use and not if you use To kill a process it must either belong to you or you must be superuser.
The process number of an asynchronous process started with `&' is reported by the shell. Process numbers can also be found by using It
allows job specifiers ``%...'' so process ID's are not as often used as arguments. See for details.
Options-l Lists signal names. The signal names are listed by `kill -l', and are as given in /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG
prefix.
See Alsocsh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)kill(1)
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KILL(1) Linux Programmer's Manual KILL(1)NAME
kill - terminate a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ...
kill -l [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
The command kill sends the specified signal to the specified process or process group. If no signal is specified, the TERM signal is sent.
The TERM signal will kill processes which do not catch this signal. For other processes, it may be necessary to use the KILL (9) signal,
since this signal cannot be caught.
Most modern shells have a builtin kill function, with a usage rather similar to that of the command described here. The `-a' and `-p'
options, and the possibility to specify pids by command name is a local extension.
OPTIONS
pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should signal. Each pid can be one of five things:
n where n is larger than 0. The process with pid n will be signaled.
0 All processes in the current process group are signaled.
-1 All processes with pid larger than 1 will be signaled.
-n where n is larger than 1. All processes in process group n are signaled. When an argument of the form `-n' is given, and it
is meant to denote a process group, either the signal must be specified first, or the argument must be preceded by a `--'
option, otherwise it will be taken as the signal to send.
commandname
All processes invoked using that name will be signaled.
-s signal
Specify the signal to send. The signal may be given as a signal name or number.
-l Print a list of signal names. These are found in /usr/include/linux/signal.h
-a Do not restrict the commandname-to-pid conversion to processes with the same uid as the present process.
-p Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals.
SEE ALSO bash(1), tcsh(1), kill(2), sigvec(2), signal(7)AUTHOR
Taken from BSD 4.4. The ability to translate process names to process ids was added by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>.
Linux Utilities 14 October 1994 KILL(1)
i have a script that read a file which contains process_id and time that he's
in and it lookes like this
0:30 54545
0:44 66788
0:90 23233
i need to read every line in the file and get the time and if the process is greater then 0:30 to kill the process id
the script looks like... (17 Replies)
Hi, I am new to forum, I am wondering anyone can help me ?
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hey champs,
I have a process running.......i have to catch/trap the signal when the process is being interupted/killed (kill -9 pid) option......
how can i achieve the same thru my process........
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Dears all
i have an AIX box in which i am facing a problem with a process as below:
/usr/dt/bin/dtexec -open 0 -ttprocid
and each time i am killing this process with "kill -9" then it run again after a while.
any ideas or solutions will be appreciated. (13 Replies)
Hi,
I read a set of processes with:
ps -eaf|grep oracleTRLV
The result is:
oracle 23253 1 0 15:14:11 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
oracle 23301 1 0 15:15:07 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
oracle 22914 1 0 15:11:19 ? 0:00 oracleTRLV (LOCAL=NO)
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Steve (10 Replies)
We should put an end to saying "orphan", "kill child", "zombie".
Anyone,
We should change the awful metaphors used in the language of managing Unix processes. I believe that this still humbly local initiative hides a great importance of how the world of Unix looks and feels to every user.
... (18 Replies)
hello,
i'v trying to use the TEST command and i have some problems with it.
i am trying kill all proccess wich is greater than 25.
i started with - ps -f | grep -v TTY | awk '{print $4}'
but i dont know how to proceed from here..
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kill -SIGUSR1 pid
or
kill -10 pid
or any other signals according to my program
#include"headers.h"
static void sig_usr(int);
main()
{
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#!/bin/bash
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In a bash script, I'm using kill -0 to test if I have permission to kill a process. There are 3 cases:
- the process exists and I have permission: OK
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Good morning, In a Production environment ive seen this command that kills processes
kill -9 -1
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