1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 8.\" 9.\" @(#)kill.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 05/31/93 10.\" 11.Dd 12.Dt KILL 1 13.Os 14.Sh NAME 15.Nm kill 16.Nd terminate or signal a process 17.Sh SYNOPSIS 18.Nm kill 19.Op Fl signal_name 20.Ar pid 21\&... 22.Nm kill 23.Op Fl signal_number 24.Ar pid 25\&... 26.Nm kill 27.Op Fl l 28.Sh DESCRIPTION 29The kill utility sends the 30.Dv TERM 31signal to the processes specified 32by the pid operand(s). 33.Pp 34Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes. 35.Pp 36The options are as follows: 37.Pp 38.Bl -tag -width Ds 39.It Fl l 40List the signal names. 41.It Fl signal_name 42A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the 43default 44.Dv TERM . 45The 46.Fl l 47option displays the signal names. 48.It Fl signal_number 49A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent instead 50of the default 51.Dv TERM . 52.El 53.Pp 54Some of the more commonly used signals: 55.Bd -ragged -offset indent -compact 56.Bl -column XXX TERM 57.It -1 -1 (super-user broadcast to all processes, or user broadcast 58to user's processes) 59.It 0 0 (sh(1) only, signals all members of process group) 60.It 2 INT (interrupt) 61.It 3 QUIT (quit) 62.It 6 ABRT (abort) 63.It 9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill) 64.It 14 ALRM (alarm clock) 65.It 15 TERM (software termination signal) 66.El 67.Ed 68.Pp 69.Nm Kill 70is a built-in to 71.Xr csh 1 ; 72it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments 73so process id's are not as often used as 74.Nm kill 75arguments. 76See 77.Xr csh 1 78for details. 79.Sh SEE ALSO 80.Xr csh 1 , 81.Xr ps 1 , 82.Xr kill 2 , 83.Xr sigvec 2 84.Sh HISTORY 85A 86.Nm kill 87command appeared in 88.At v6 . 89.Sh BUGS 90A replacement for the command 91.Dq Li kill 0 92for 93.Xr csh 1 94users should be provided. 95