kill \- terminate a process with extreme prejudice
sends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes.
If a signal number preceded by `\-' is given
as first argument, that signal is sent instead of
This will kill processes that do not catch the signal;
in particular `kill \-9 ...' is a sure kill.
By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members
in the process group (i.e. processes resulting from
the current login) are signaled.
The killed processes must belong
to the current user unless
To shut the system down and bring it up single user
The process number of an asynchronous process
started with `&' is reported by the shell.
Process numbers can also be found by using
ps(1), kill(2), signal(2)