3 kill \- send a signal to a process
5 \fBkill\fR [\fB\-\fIn\fR] \fIprocess\fR
18 .FL "\-\fIn\fR" "Signal number to send"
19 .FL "\-\fINAME\fR" "Named signal to send"
21 .EX "kill 35" "Send signal 15 to process 35"
22 .EX "kill \-9 40" "Send signal 9 to process 40"
23 .EX "kill \-2 0" "Send signal 2 to whole terminal process group"
24 .EX "kill \-HUP -123" "Send a hangup to process group 123"
27 A signal is sent to a given process.
28 By default signal 15 (SIGTERM) is sent.
29 Process 0 means all the processes in the sender's process group.
30 A process group can be signalled by the negative value of the process
32 Signals may be numerical, or the name of the signal without \fBSIG\fP.