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        !            18: .\"     @(#)kill.1     6.4 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
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        !            20: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            21: .Dt KILL 1
        !            22: .Os BSD 4.4
        !            23: .Sh NAME
        !            24: .Nm kill
        !            25: .Nd terminate or signal a process
        !            26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            27: .Nm kill
        !            28: .Op Fl signal_name
        !            29: .Ar pid
        !            30: \&...
        !            31: .Nm kill
        !            32: .Op Fl l
        !            33: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            34: The kill utility sends a signal to the process(es) specified
        !            35: by each pid operand. It is used to kill runaway or misbegotten
        !            36: processes, such as those
        !            37: .Em backgrounded
        !            38: with
        !            39: .Sq Li \&& .
        !            40: .Nm Kill
        !            41: is intelligent about who owns a process.
        !            42: .Pp
        !            43: Options available:
        !            44: .Pp
        !            45: .Tw Ds
        !            46: .Tp Fl signal_name
        !            47: A symbolic signal name. To find out all the possible signal names
        !            48: do a
        !            49: .Li kill -l .
        !            50: .Tp Fl l
        !            51: Available signal names are listed and are as found in
        !            52: .Pa /usr/include/signal.h ,
        !            53: stripped of the common SIG prefix.
        !            54: .Tp Fl signal_number
        !            55: A (nonnegative) decimal integer, representing the signal
        !            56: to be used instead of TERM as the sig argument in
        !            57: the effective call to
        !            58: .Xr kill 2 .
        !            59: .Tp
        !            60: .Pp
        !            61: Some of the more commonly used signals with kill:
        !            62: .Ds I
        !            63: .Cw XXX TERM
        !            64: .Cl -1 -1      (broadcast to all processes, super user only)
        !            65: .Cl 0  0       (sh(1) only, signals all members of process group)
        !            66: .Cl 2  INT     (interupt)
        !            67: .Cl 3  QUIT    (quit)
        !            68: .Cl 6  ABRT    (abort)
        !            69: .Cl 9  KILL    (non-catchable non-ignorable kill)
        !            70: .Cl 14 ALRM    (alarm clock)
        !            71: .Cl 15 TERM    (software termination signal)
        !            72: .Cw
        !            73: .De
        !            74: .Pp
        !            75: .Nm Kill
        !            76: is a built-in to
        !            77: .Xr csh  1  ;
        !            78: it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments
        !            79: so process id's are not as often used as
        !            80: .Nm kill
        !            81: arguments.
        !            82: See
        !            83: .Xr csh  1
        !            84: for details.
        !            85: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            86: .Xr csh 1 ,
        !            87: .Xr ps 1 ,
        !            88: .Xr kill 2 ,
        !            89: .Xr sigvec 2
        !            90: .Sh HISTORY
        !            91: A
        !            92: .Nm kill
        !            93: command appeared in Version 6 AT&T Unix.
        !            94: .Sh BUGS
        !            95: A replacement for
        !            96: .Dq Li kill 0
        !            97: for
        !            98: .Xr csh  1
        !            99: users should be provided.

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