kill - send signals to processes, or list signals
kill [-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL] PID... kill -l [SIGNAL]... kill -t [SIGNAL]...
KILL(1) User Commands KILL(1) NAME kill - send signals to processes, or list signals SYNOPSIS kill [-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL] PID... kill -l [SIGNAL]... kill -t [SIGNAL]... DESCRIPTION Send signals to processes, or list signals. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -s, --signal=SIGNAL, -SIGNAL specify the name or number of the signal to be sent -l, --list list signal names, or convert signal names to/from numbers -t, --table print a table of signal information --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIGNAL may be a signal name like 'HUP', or a signal number like '1', or the exit status of a process terminated by a signal. PID is an inte- ger; if negative it identifies a process group. NOTE: your shell may have its own version of kill, which usually super- sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu- mentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR Written by Paul Eggert. REPORTING BUGS Report kill bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report kill translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------+ |Availability | file/gnu-coreutils | +---------------+--------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------+ SEE ALSO kill(2) The full documentation for kill is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and kill programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'kill invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core- utils-8.16.tar.xz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. GNU coreutils 8.16 March 2012 KILL(1)