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 | |
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of kill, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shells documentation 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/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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.
SEE ALSO
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' | |