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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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