Name

kill

Synopsis

kill [options] IDs

Description

Terminate each specified process ID or job ID. You must own the process or be a privileged user. See also Section 7.8.

Options

- signal

The signal number (from ps -f) or name (from kill -l). With a signal number of 9, the kill cannot be caught. The default is TERM.

--

Consider all subsequent strings to be arguments, not options.

-l

List the signal names. (Used by itself.)

-s signal

Specify signal. May be a name.

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