In computing, kill is a command that is used in several popular operating systems to send signals to running processes. In Unix and Unix-like operating...

Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...

command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, which outputs an affirmative response, or a user-defined string of text, continuously until killed. By itself...

applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...

signals are to interrupt, suspend, terminate or kill a process. Signals originated in 1970s Bell Labs Unix and were later specified in the POSIX standard...

files, known as shell scripts, facilitating automation. In keeping with Unix shell conventions, Bash incorporates a rich set of features. The keywords...

The term "Research Unix" refers to early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed...

nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke...

utility for Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems and beyond, the primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files. On Unix, device...

Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its...

In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation...

In most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the ps (process status) program displays the currently-running processes. The related Unix utility top provides...

The Unix command fuser is used to show which processes are using a specified computer file, file system, or Unix socket. For example, to check process...

sending a signal, like the kill program. Kill all processes named xmms: killall xmms Free and open-source software portal List of Unix commands Signal (computing)...

Tru64 UNIX is a discontinued 64-bit UNIX operating system for the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA), currently owned by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Previously...

Multi-Environment Real-Time (MERT), later renamed UNIX Real-Time (UNIX-RT), is a hybrid time-sharing and real-time operating system developed in the 1970s...

On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution (via the exit system call)...

Unix-like operating systems. A signal can be generated by calling raise() or kill() system calls. raise() sends a signal to the current process, kill()...

swapper == idle task kill(2) — Linux manual page sched_setscheduler(2) — Linux manual page pid_namespaces(7) — Linux manual page comp.unix.aix Frequently Asked...

interrupt vector table. To generate software interrupts in Unix-like operating systems, the kill(pid,signum) system call will send a signal to another process...

character char sg_kill ; // Kill character char sg_flags ; // Control flags } ; Unlike the POSIX terminal interface, the Seventh Edition Unix terminal interface...

Shell There are many variants of Unix shell: Bourne shell sh Almquist shell (ash) Debian Almquist shell (dash) Bash (Unix shell) bash KornShell ksh Z shell...

Interix included (at version 3.5): Over 350 Unix utilities such as vi, ksh, csh, ls, cat, awk, grep, kill, etc. A complete set of manual pages for utilities...

for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems. In September 2002, the GNU coreutils were created...

Internet Explorer for UNIX is a discontinued version of the Internet Explorer graphical web browser that was available free of charge and produced by Microsoft...

DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM...

often associated with Unix workstations. Keyboards from Sun Microsystems came in two layouts; "Unix" and "PC-style", with the Unix layout having the traditional...

init or the process with the given pid. It can also be installed in other Unix systems. In BSD systems, a similar output is created using ps -d, in Linux...

Michael, ed. (25 July 2009), "KILL(2)", Linux Programmer's Manual (version 3.22), The Linux Kernel Archives, retrieved 23 September 2009. Unix signal RS-232...

On Unix, Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant operating systems, popular system calls are open, read, write, close, wait, exec, fork, exit, and kill. Many...