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.Nd terminate or signal a process
The kill utility sends the TERM signal to the processes specified
Only the super-user may send signals to other users' processes.
The options are as follows:
A symbolic signal name specifying the signal to be sent instead of the
option displays the signal names.
A non-negative decimal integer, specifying the signal to be sent instead
Some of the more commonly used signals:
.Cl -1 -1 (broadcast to all processes, super-user only)
.Cl 0 0 (sh(1) only, signals all members of process group)
.Cl 9 KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable kill)
.Cl 14 ALRM (alarm clock)
.Cl 15 TERM (software termination signal)
it allows job specifiers of the form ``%...'' as arguments
so process id's are not as often used as
command appeared in Version 6 AT&T Unix.
users should be provided.