NAME¶

kill - Send signal to processes or list information about signals.

SYNOPSIS¶

kill [-l|--list] [-t|--table] [-s|--signal] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [pids_or_signals]

DESCRIPTION¶

Send signal to processes or list information about signals.

OPTIONS¶

-l, --list

Lists signals

-t, --table

Lists table of signals

-s, --signal <signal>

Sends given signal instead of SIGTERM

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Terminate a program using the default SIGTERM (terminate) signal:

kill process_id

List available signal names (to be used without the `SIG` prefix):

kill -l

Terminate a program using the SIGHUP (hang up) signal. Many daemons will reload instead of terminating:

kill [-1|-HUP] process_id

Terminate a program using the SIGINT (interrupt) signal. This is typically initiated by the user pressing `<Ctrl c>`:

kill [-2|-INT] process_id

Signal the operating system to immediately terminate a program (which gets no chance to capture the signal):

kill [-9|-KILL] process_id

Signal the operating system to pause a program until a SIGCONT ("continue") signal is received:

kill [-19|-STOP] process_id

Send a `SIGUSR1` signal to all processes with the given GID (group id):

kill -SIGUSR1 -group_id

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.