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AT&T UNIX™PC Unix System V Users Manual - tenox

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KILL (I) KILL(l)<br />

NAME<br />

kill - terminate a process<br />

SYNOPSIS<br />

kill [ -signo ] PID ...<br />

DESCRIPTION<br />

Kill sends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes. This<br />

will normally kill processes that do not catch or ignore the signal .<br />

The process number of each asynchronous process started with &<br />

is reported by the Shell (unless more than one process is started in<br />

a pipeline, in which case the number of the last process in the<br />

pipeline is reported). Process numbers can also be found by using<br />

ps(1).<br />

The details of the kill are described in kill(2). For example, if process<br />

number 0 is specified, all processes in the process group are<br />

signaled.<br />

The killed process must belong to the current user unless he is the<br />

super-user.<br />

If a signal number preceded by - is given as first argument, that<br />

signal is sent instead of terminate (see signal(2)). In particular<br />

"kill -9 . . . " is a sure kill.<br />

SEE ALSO<br />

ps(1), sh(1), kill(2), signal(2).<br />

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