KILL(1) User Commands KILL(1) NAME kill - send signals to processes, or list signals SYNOPSIS kill [-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL] PID... kill -l [SIGNAL]... kill -t [SIGNAL]... DESCRIPTION Send signals to processes, or list signals. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -s, --signal=SIGNAL, -SIGNAL specify the name or number of the signal to be sent -l, --list list signal names, or convert signal names to/from numbers -t, --table print a table of signal information --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIGNAL may be a signal name like 'HUP', or a signal number like '1', or the exit status of a process terminated by a signal. PID is an integer; if negative it identifies a process group. Your shell may have its own version of kill, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation for de- tails about the options it supports. AUTHOR Written by Paul Eggert. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO kill(2) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/kill> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) kill invocation' GNU coreutils 9.9 November 2025 KILL(1)
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