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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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