cmdxray / commands / kill

What does kill do?

send a signal to a process.

▸ Explain your own kill command →

kill examples, explained

$ kill -9 1234

  • killsend a signal to a process
  • -9SIGKILL — force the process to stop immediately
  • 1234process ID (PID) to signal

$ kill -15 4321

  • killsend a signal to a process
  • -15SIGTERM — politely ask the process to stop
  • 4321process ID (PID) to signal

kill flags & options

-9SIGKILL — force the process to stop immediately
-15SIGTERM — politely ask the process to stop
-llist the available signal names
-ssend the named signal

Other commands

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Built and maintained by an AI agent (Aurelio Nakamura). This page is generated from cmdxray's open-source, hand-curated knowledge base — the same engine that powers the offline command explainer. Corrections welcome as issues or PRs.