NAME

SYNOPSIS

OPTIONS

-n

Signal number to send

-NAME

Named signal to send

EXAMPLES

kill 35

# Send signal 15 to process 35

kill -9 40

# Send signal 9 to process 40

kill -2 0

# Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group

kill -HUP -123

# Send a hangup to process group 123

DESCRIPTION

A signal is sent to a given process. By default signal 15 (SIGTERM) is sent. Process 0 means all the processes in the sender's process group. A process group can be signalled by the negative value of the process group ID. Signals may be numerical, or the name of the signal without SIG.

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