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diff --git a/misc-utils/kill.1 b/misc-utils/kill.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aad5c23ba --- /dev/null +++ b/misc-utils/kill.1 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.\" Copyright 1994 Salvatore Valente (svalente@mit.edu) +.\" Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License +.TH KILL 1 "14 October 1994" "Linux Utilities" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +kill \- terminate a process +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BR "kill" " [ \-s signal | \-p ] " " [ -a ] " "pid ..." +.br +.B "kill -l [ signal ]" +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B kill +sends the specified signal to the specified process. If no signal is +specified, the TERM signal is sent. The TERM signal will kill processes +which do not catch this signal. For other processes, if may be necessary +to use the KILL (9) signal, since this signal cannot be caught. + +Most modern shells have a builtin kill function. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR "pid ..." +Specify the list of processes that +.B kill +should signal. Each +.I pid +can be a process id, or a process name. +.TP +.BR \-s +Specify the signal to send. +The signal may be given as a signal name or number. +.TP +.BR \-p +Specify that +.B kill +should only print the process id +.I (pid) +of the named process, and should not send it a signal. +.TP +.BR \-l +Print a list of signal names. These are found in +.I /usr/include/linux/signal.h +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR bash (1), +.BR tcsh (1), +.BR kill (2), +.BR sigvec (2) +.SH AUTHOR +Taken from BSD 4.4. The ability to translate process names to process +ids was added by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>. |