KILL(1)               (Essential Utilities)               KILL(1)



  NAME
       kill - terminate a process

  SYNOPSIS
       kill [ -signo ] PID ...

  DESCRIPTION
       kill sends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes.
       This will normally kill processes that do not catch or
       ignore the signal.  The process number of each asynchronous
       process started with & is reported by the shell (unless more
       than one process is started in a pipeline, in which case the
       number of the last process in the pipeline is reported).
       Process numbers can also be found by using ps(1).

       The details of the kill are described in kill(2).  For
       example, if process number 0 is specified, all processes in
       the process group are signaled.

       The killed process must belong to the current user unless he
       is the super-user.

       If a signal number preceded by - is given as first argument,
       that signal is sent instead of terminate (see signal(2)).
       In particular ``kill -9 ...'' is a sure kill.

  SEE ALSO
       ps(1), sh(1).
       kill(2), signal(2) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.













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