.TH KILL 1

.SH NAME

kill \- send a signal to a process

.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBkill\fR [\fB\-\fIn\fR] \fIprocess\fR

.br

.de FL

.TP

\\fB\\$1\\fR

\\$2

..

.de EX

.TP 20

\\fB\\$1\\fR

# \\$2

..

.SH OPTIONS

.FL "\-\fIn\fR" "Signal number to send"

.FL "\-\fINAME\fR" "Named signal to send"

.SH EXAMPLES

.EX "kill 35" "Send signal 15 to process 35"

.EX "kill \-9 40" "Send signal 9 to process 40"

.EX "kill \-2 0" "Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group"

.EX "kill \-HUP -123" "Send a hangup to process group 123"

.SH DESCRIPTION

.PP

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 \fBSIG\fP.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR kill (2),

.BR sigaction (2).