.TH KILL 1 .SH NAMEkill \- terminate a process with extreme prejudice.SH SYNOPSIS.B kill[.BR \- signo]processid ....SH DESCRIPTION.I Killsends signal 15 (terminate) to the specified processes.If a signal number preceded by `\-' is givenas first argument, that signal is sent instead ofterminate(see.IR  signal (2)).This will kill processes that do not catch the signal;in particular `kill \-9 ...' is a sure kill..PPBy convention, if process number 0 is specified, all membersin the process group (i.e. processes resulting from the current login) are signaled..PPThe killed processes must belongto the current user unlesshe is the super-user.To shut the system down and bring it up single userthe super-user mayuse `kill \-1 1'; see.IR init (8)..PPThe process number of an asynchronous processstarted with `&' is reported by the shell.Process numbers can also be found by using.IR ps (1)..SH "SEE ALSO"ps(1), kill(2), signal(2)