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.\" (The preceding line is a note to broken versions of man to tell
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.\" them to pre-process this man page with tbl)
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.\" Man page for kill.
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.\" Licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
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.\" Written by Albert Cahalan; converted to a man page by
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.\" Michael K. Johnson
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.TH KILL 1 "November 21, 1999" "Linux" "Linux User's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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kill \- send a signal to a process
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBkill\fR [ \-\fBsignal\fR | \-s \fBsignal\fR ] \fBpid\fR ...
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\fBkill\fR [ \-L | -V, \-\-version ]
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\fBkill\fR \-l [ \fBsignal\fR ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The default signal for kill is TERM. Use \-l or \-L to list available signals.
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Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0.
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Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: \-9 \-SIGKILL \-KILL.
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Negative PID values may be used to choose whole process groups; see the
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PGID column in ps command output. A PID of \-1 is special; it indicates
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all processes except the kill process itself and init.
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.SH SIGNALS
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The signals listed below may be available for use with kill.
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When known constant, numbers and default behavior are shown.
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.TS
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lB rB lB lB
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lfCW r l l.
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Name Num Action Description
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0 0 n/a exit code indicates if a signal may be sent
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ALRM 14 exit
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HUP 1 exit
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INT 2 exit
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KILL 9 exit cannot be blocked
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PIPE 13 exit
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POLL exit
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PROF exit
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TERM 15 exit
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USR1 exit
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USR2 exit
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VTALRM exit
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STKFLT exit might not be implemented
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PWR ignore might exit on some systems
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WINCH ignore
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CHLD ignore
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URG ignore
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TSTP stop might interact with the shell
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TTIN stop might interact with the shell
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TTOU stop might interact with the shell
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STOP stop cannot be blocked
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CONT restart continue if stopped, otherwise ignore
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ABRT 6 core
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FPE 8 core
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ILL 4 core
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QUIT 3 core
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SEGV 11 core
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TRAP 5 core
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SYS core might not be implemented
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EMT core might not be implemented
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BUS core core dump might fail
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XCPU core core dump might fail
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XFSZ core core dump might fail
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.TE
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.SH NOTES
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Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command.
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You may need to run the command described here as /bin/kill to solve
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the conflict.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.TP
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.B kill \-9 \-1
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Kill all processes you can kill.
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.TP
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.B kill \-l 11
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Translate number 11 into a signal name.
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.TP
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.B kill -L
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List the available signal choices in a nice table.
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.TP
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.B kill 123 543 2341 3453
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Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR pkill (1),
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.BR skill (1),
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.BR kill (2),
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.BR renice (1),
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.BR nice (1),
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.BR signal (7),
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.BR killall (1).
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.SH STANDARDS
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This command meets appropriate standards. The \-L flag is Linux-specific.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote kill in 1999 to replace a
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bsdutils one that was not standards compliant. The util-linux one might
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also work correctly.
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Please send bug reports to <procps@freelists.org>
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