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.TH KILL "1" "March 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.16" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
kill \- send signals to processes, or list signals
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kill
[\fI-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL\fR] \fIPID\fR...
.br
.B kill
\fI-l \fR[\fISIGNAL\fR]...
.br
.B kill
\fI-t \fR[\fISIGNAL\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
Send signals to processes, or list signals.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.HP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-signal\fR=\fISIGNAL\fR, \fB\-SIGNAL\fR
.IP
specify the name or number of the signal to be sent
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\fR
list signal names, or convert signal names to/from numbers
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-table\fR
print a table of signal information
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
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.
.PP
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of kill, which usually supersedes
the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Paul Eggert.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report kill bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
Report kill translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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.SH ATTRIBUTES
See
.BR attributes (5)
for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp
.TS
box;
cbp-1 | cbp-1
l | l .
ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE 
=
Availability	file/gnu-coreutils
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Stability	Uncommitted
.TE 
.PP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
kill(2)
.PP
The full documentation for
.B kill
is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
.B info
and
.B kill
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
.IP
.B info coreutils \(aqkill invocation\(aq
.PP
should give you access to the complete manual.


.SH NOTES

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This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original community source was downloaded from  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz

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