Linux "kill" Command Line Options and Examples

send signal to a process

The default signal for kill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0.

Usage:

kill [options] [...]

Related Commands

Command Line Options:

--signal

Specify the signal to be sent. The signal can be specified by using name or number. The behavior of signals is explained insignal(7) manual page.


                            kill --signal ...

-l

List signal names. This option has optional argument, which will convert signal number to signal name, or other way round.


                            kill -l ...

-L

List signal names in a nice table.NOTES Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command. You may need to run the command described here as/bin/kill to solve the conflict.EXAMPLESkill -9 -1Kill all processes you can kill.kill -l 11Translate number 11 into a signal name.kill -LList the available signal choices in a nice table.kill 123 543 2341 3453Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes.


                            kill -L ...