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KILL(1)			    General Commands Manual		       KILL(1)

NAME
       kill, slay, start, stop - print commands	to manipulate processes

SYNOPSIS
       kill name ...

       slay name ...

       start name ...

       stop name ...

DESCRIPTION
       Kill  prints commands that will cause all processes with	name and owned
       by the current user to be terminated.  Each command is  commented  with
       an  output  line	 from  ps((1))	describing  the	 process that would be
       killed.	Use the	send command of	9term((1)), or pipe the	output of kill
       into rc((1)) or sh((1)) to execute the commands.

       Kill suggests sending a Unix TERM signal	to the process;	sending	a KILL
       signal is a surer, if heavy handed, kill, but is	necessary if  the  of-
       fending	process	is ignoring signals.  The slay command prints commands
       to do this.

       Stop prints commands to pause execution of processes  by	 sending  them
       the STOP	signal.

       Start  prints commands to restart stopped processes by sending them the
       CONT signal.

SOURCE
       /bin

SEE ALSO
       ps((1)),	notify((3))

BUGS
       Stop and	start should limit themselves to currently running or  stopped
       processes.

								       KILL(1)

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