kill

kill

 [

options

] 

IDs

Terminate each specified process ID or job ID . You must own the process or be a privileged user. This built-in is similar to /bin/kill described in Section 2. See also "Job Control."

Options

-l

List the signal names. (Used by itself.)

- signal

The signal number (from ps -f ) or name (from kill -l ). With a signal number of 9, the kill is absolute.

Signals

Signals are defined in /usr/include/sys/signal.h and are listed here without the SIG prefix.

HUP	1	hangup INT	2	interrupt QUIT	3	quit ILL	4	illegal instruction TRAP	5	trace trap IOT	6	IOT instruction EMT	7	EMT instruction FPE	8	floating point exception KILL	9	kill BUS	10	bus error SEGV	11	segmentation violation SYS	12	bad argument to system call PIPE	13	write to pipe, but no process to read it ALRM	14	alarm clock TERM	15	software termination (the default signal) USR1	16	user-defined signal 1 USR2	17	user-defined signal 2 CLD	18	child process died PWR	19	restart after power failure