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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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