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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.50.1.
.TH KILL "1" "February 2026" "GNU coreutils 9.10" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
kill \- send signals to processes, or list signals
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kill
[\fI\,-s SIGNAL | -SIGNAL\/\fR] \fI\,PID\/\fR...
.br
.B kill
\fI\,-l \/\fR[\fI\,SIGNAL\/\fR]...
.br
.B kill
\fI\,-t \/\fR[\fI\,SIGNAL\/\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
Send signals to processes, or list signals.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#kill-s'\fB\-s, \-\-signal=\,SIGNAL\/, \-SIGNAL\fP\X'tty: link'
specify the name or number of the signal to be sent
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#kill-l'\fB\-l, \-\-list\fP\X'tty: link'
list signal names, or convert signal names to/from numbers
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#kill-t'\fB\-t, \-\-table\fP\X'tty: link'
print a table of signal information
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/kill#kill--help'\fB\-\-help\fP\X'tty: link'
display this help and exit
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/kill#kill--version'\fB\-\-version\fP\X'tty: link'
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
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 bugs to: bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBkill\fP(2)
.PP
.br
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/kill>
.br
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) kill invocation\(aq
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