Name
kill - send a signal to a processSynopsis
kill [options] <pid> [...]Description
The default signal for kill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9 ", " -SIGKILLor -KILL .Negative PID values may be used to choose whole process groups; see the PGID column in ps command output. A PID of -1 is special; it indicates all processes except the kill process itself and init.Options
<pid> [...] Send signal to every <pid> listed.
-<signal> -s <signal> --signal <signal> Specify the signal to be sent. The signal can be specified by using name or number. The behavior of signals is explained in signal(7) manual page.
-q, --queue value Use sigqueue(3)rather than kill(2)and the value argument is used to specify an integer to be sent with the signal. If the receiving process has installed a handler for this signal using the SA_SIGINFO flag to sigaction(2), then it can obtain this data via the si_value field of the siginfo_t structure.
-l, --list [signal] List signal names. This option has optional argument, which will convert signal number to signal name, or other way round.
-L , \ --tableList signal names in a nice table.
Notes
Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command. You may need to run the command described here as /bin/kill to solve the conflict.Examples
kill -9 -1 Kill all processes you can kill.
kill -l 11 Translate number 11 into a signal name.
kill -L List the available signal choices in a nice table.
kill 123 543 2341 3453 Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes.