kill Command

The kill command sends a signal to a process and kills the target process.

Syntax

kill -l	List all known signal numbers, names, and descriptions.
kill	Kill the controlled process.
kill job...	Send the SIGTERM signal to the listed jobs.
kill -signal job...	Send the given signal to the listed jobs.

where:

job may be a process ID or may be specified in any of the following ways:

%+	Kill the current job.
%-	Kill the previous job.
%number	Kill job number number.
%string	Kill the job which begins with string.
%?string	Kill the job which contains string.

signal is the name of a signal.