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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)kill.1      6.2 (Berkeley) 4/20/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH KILL 1 "April 20, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: kill \- terminate a process with extreme prejudice
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B kill
        !            13: [
        !            14: .BR \- sig
        !            15: ]
        !            16: processid ...
        !            17: .br
        !            18: .B kill
        !            19: .B \-l
        !            20: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            21: .I Kill
        !            22: sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes.
        !            23: If a signal name or number preceded by `\-' is given
        !            24: as first argument, that signal is sent instead of
        !            25: terminate
        !            26: (see
        !            27: .IR  sigvec (2)).
        !            28: The signal names are listed by
        !            29: `kill \-l', and are as given in
        !            30: .I /usr/include/signal.h,
        !            31: stripped of the common SIG prefix.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: The terminate signal will kill processes that do not catch the signal;
        !            34: `kill \-9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be caught.
        !            35: By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members
        !            36: in the process group (i.e. processes resulting from 
        !            37: the current login) are signaled (but beware: this works only
        !            38: if you use
        !            39: .IR sh (1);
        !            40: not if you use
        !            41: .IR csh (1).)
        !            42: Negative process numbers also have special meanings; see
        !            43: .IR kill (2)
        !            44: for details.
        !            45: .PP
        !            46: The killed processes must belong
        !            47: to the current user unless
        !            48: he is the super-user.
        !            49: .PP
        !            50: The process number of an asynchronous process
        !            51: started with `&' is reported by the shell.
        !            52: Process numbers can also be found by using
        !            53: .IR ps (1).
        !            54: .I Kill
        !            55: is a built-in to
        !            56: .IR csh (1);
        !            57: it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments
        !            58: so process id's are not as often used as
        !            59: .I kill
        !            60: arguments.
        !            61: See
        !            62: .IR csh (1)
        !            63: for details.
        !            64: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            65: csh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)
        !            66: .SH BUGS
        !            67: A replacement for ``kill 0''
        !            68: for
        !            69: .IR csh (1)
        !            70: users should be provided.

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