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1.1     ! root        1: .TH KILL 1 "18 January 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: kill \- terminate a process with extreme prejudice
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B kill
        !             7: [
        !             8: .BR \- sig
        !             9: ]
        !            10: processid ...
        !            11: .br
        !            12: .B kill
        !            13: .B \-l
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Kill
        !            16: sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes.
        !            17: If a signal name or number preceded by `\-' is given
        !            18: as first argument, that signal is sent instead of
        !            19: terminate
        !            20: (see
        !            21: .IR  sigvec (2)).
        !            22: The signal names are listed by
        !            23: `kill \-l', and are as given in
        !            24: .I /usr/include/signal.h,
        !            25: stripped of the common SIG prefix.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: The terminate signal will kill processes that do not catch the signal;
        !            28: `kill \-9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot be caught.
        !            29: By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members
        !            30: in the process group (i.e. processes resulting from 
        !            31: the current login) are signaled (but beware: this works only
        !            32: if you use
        !            33: .IR sh (1);
        !            34: not if you use
        !            35: .IR csh (1).)
        !            36: The killed processes must belong
        !            37: to the current user unless
        !            38: he is the super-user.
        !            39: .PP
        !            40: The process number of an asynchronous process
        !            41: started with `&' is reported by the shell.
        !            42: Process numbers can also be found by using
        !            43: .I Kill
        !            44: is a built-in to
        !            45: .IR csh (1);
        !            46: it allows job specifiers ``%...''
        !            47: so process id's are not as often used as
        !            48: .I kill
        !            49: arguments.
        !            50: See
        !            51: .IR csh (1)
        !            52: for details.
        !            53: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            54: csh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)
        !            55: .SH BUGS
        !            56: An option to kill process groups ala
        !            57: .IR killpg (2)
        !            58: should be provided; a replacement for ``kill 0''
        !            59: for
        !            60: .IR csh (1)
        !            61: users should be provided.

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