KILL(1) | General Commands Manual | KILL(1) |
kill
— terminate
or signal a process
kill |
[-s signal_name]
pid ... |
kill |
-l [exit_status] |
kill |
- signal_name
pid ... |
kill |
- signal_number
pid ... |
The kill
utility sends a signal to the
processes specified by the pid operands.
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
The options are as follows:
-s
signal_nameTERM
.-l
[exit_status]-
signal_nameTERM
.-
signal_numberTERM
.The following PIDs have special meanings:
Some of the more commonly used signals:
Some shells may provide a builtin kill
command which is similar or identical to this utility. Consult the
builtin(1) manual page.
The kill
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Terminate the processes with PIDs 142 and 157:
kill 142 157
Send the hangup signal (SIGHUP
) to the
process with PID 507:
kill -s HUP 507
Terminate the process group with PGID 117:
kill -- -117
builtin(1), csh(1), killall(1), ps(1), sh(1), kill(2), sigaction(2)
The kill
utility is expected to be
IEEE Std 1003.2 (“POSIX.2”)
compatible.
A kill
command appeared in
Version 3 AT&T UNIX in section 8 of the
manual.
A replacement for the command “kill
0
” for csh(1) users should
be provided.
October 3, 2016 | macOS 14.6 |