.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.3. .TH KILL "1" "March 2020" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands" .SH NAME kill \- send signals to processes, or list signals .SH SYNOPSIS .B kill [\fI\,-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL\/\fR] \fI\,PID\/\fR... .br .B kill \fI\,-l \/\fR[\fI\,SIGNAL\/\fR]... .br .B kill \fI\,-t \/\fR[\fI\,SIGNAL\/\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION .\" Add any additional description here .PP Send signals to processes, or list signals. .PP Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. .HP \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-signal\fR=\fI\,SIGNAL\/\fR, \fB\-SIGNAL\fR .IP specify the name or number of the signal to be sent .TP \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\fR list signal names, or convert signal names to/from numbers .TP \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-table\fR print a table of signal information .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .PP SIGNAL may be a signal name like 'HUP', or a signal number like '1', or the exit status of a process terminated by a signal. PID is an integer; if negative it identifies a process group. .PP NOTE: your shell may have its own version of kill, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for details about the options it supports. .SH AUTHOR Written by Paul Eggert. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" GNU coreutils online help: .br Report any translation bugs to .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . .br This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. .SH "SEE ALSO" kill(2) .PP .br Full documentation .br or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) kill invocation\(aq