kill(1)                                                   kill(1)



     NAME
          kill - terminate a process

     SYNOPSIS
          kill [-sig] pid...

     DESCRIPTION
          kill sends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes.
          This will normally kill processes that do not catch or ig-
          nore the signal.  The process number (pid) of each asynchro-
          nous process started with & is reported by the shell (unless
          more than one process is started in a pipeline, in which
          case the number of the last process in the pipeline is re-
          ported).  Process numbers may also be found by using ps(1).

          Details of the kill are described in kill(2).  For example,
          if process number 0 is specified, all processes in the pro-
          cess group are signaled.

          The to-be-killed process must belong to the current user un-
          less he is the superuser.

          If the -sig option is given, the corresponding signal is
          sent instead of terminate (see signal(3)).  In particular
          kill -9...  is the surest kill; especially with NFS, the 9
          signal does not always destroy the process.

          Similar versions of kill are built into ksh(1) and csh(1).

     EXAMPLES
               kill 24068

          Sends signal 15 to the process with the ID number 24068.

     FILES
          /bin/kill

     SEE ALSO
          ps(1), sh(1), csh(1), ksh(1), kill(2), signal(3).
















     April, 1990                                                     1