kill

The kill command sends a signal to processes, causing them to terminate or otherwise act upon receiving the signal in some way. Alternatively, it lists information about signals.

• GNU Coreutils Project Homepage [EN]

• GNU Coreutils [EN] @ Homebrew Formula

• kill [EN] @ Wikipedia
• kill [DE] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• kill [EN] @ GNU Coreutils Manual

• man 1 'kill' [EN]

Further information

• Kill Command Examples (27.02.2024) [EN] @ It's FOSS

• Signals [EN] @ Wikipedia
• Signals [DE] @ Wikipedia

Syntax

kill [<PARAMETER> ...] <PID> […]
kill -l [<SIGNAL>]

Parameters

-l

Print a list of signal names.

-p

Specify that kill should only print the process id (pid) of the named processes, and not send any signals.

-s <SIGNAL>

Specify the signal to send. The signal may be given as a signal name or number.