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| 1 | .TH KILL 1
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| 2 | .SH NAME
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| 3 | kill \- send a signal to a process
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS
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| 5 | \fBkill\fR [\fB\-\fIn\fR] \fIprocess\fR
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| 6 | .br
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| 7 | .de FL
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| 8 | .TP
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| 9 | \\fB\\$1\\fR
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| 10 | \\$2
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| 11 | ..
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| 12 | .de EX
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| 13 | .TP 20
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| 14 | \\fB\\$1\\fR
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| 15 | # \\$2
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| 16 | ..
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| 17 | .SH OPTIONS
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| 18 | .FL "\-\fIn\fR" "Signal number to send"
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| 19 | .FL "\-\fINAME\fR" "Named signal to send"
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| 20 | .SH EXAMPLES
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| 21 | .EX "kill 35" "Send signal 15 to process 35"
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| 22 | .EX "kill \-9 40" "Send signal 9 to process 40"
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| 23 | .EX "kill \-2 0" "Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group"
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| 24 | .EX "kill \-HUP -123" "Send a hangup to process group 123"
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| 25 | .SH DESCRIPTION
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| 26 | .PP
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| 27 | A signal is sent to a given process.
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| 28 | By default signal 15 (SIGTERM) is sent.
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| 29 | Process 0 means all the processes in the sender's process group.
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| 30 | A process group can be signalled by the negative value of the process
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| 31 | group ID.
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| 32 | Signals may be numerical, or the name of the signal without \fBSIG\fP.
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| 33 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 34 | .BR kill (2),
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| 35 | .BR sigaction (2).
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