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Sponsored by: Search | Newsletter | Conference | Tech Jobs O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference: May 13-16, 2002 Articles Linux Apache MySQL Perl PHP Python BSD Essentials What is LAMP? The Best of ONLamp.com aboutSQL Big Scary Daemons FreeBSD Basics HTTP Wrangler Linux in the Enterprise Linux Network Administration The Linux Professional Perl P5P Digest Archive PHP Admin Basics PHP Phanatics Python_News Security Alerts Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. Click on any of the 379 commands below to get a description and list of available options. All links in the command summaries point to the online version of the book on Safari Tech Books Online. Buy it now Read it online kill [option] IDs This is the /bin/kill command; there is also a shell command of the same name. Send a signal to terminate one or more process IDs. You must own the process or be a privileged user. If no signal is specified, TERM is sent. Options -l List all signals. -p Print the process ID of the named process, but don’t send it a signal. To use this option, specify the full path (e.g., /bin/kill -p). -signal The signal number (from /usr/include/sys/signal.h) or name (from kill - l). With a signal number of 9 (HUP), the kill cannot be caught by the process; use this to kill a process that a plain kill doesn’t terminate. The default is TERM. Return to: Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands Sponsored by: