Kill(command)

The kill command allows a user to request that a chosen signal (SIGTERM by default) be sent to a chosen process or group of processes. Most users are limited to processes whose UID is their own, but the superuser is not so limited.

Provided by
This command occurs in the GNU Coreutils where a man page can also be found. Many Linux systems, however, are using a different version. The current author has not yet tracked this down.

Related Commands
These all relate process control
 * killall - Kill processes by command-name.
 * sleep - Delay the process calling this.