kill

command in several OSes to terminate a process
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kill

Summary

kill is a standard UNIX utility or command[1]. kill draws 56 Wikipedia views per month (standard_unix_utility_or_command category, ranking #36 of 124).[2]

Key Facts

  • kill's instance of is recorded as standard UNIX utility or command[3].
  • kill's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03rz5b[4].
  • kill's described at URL is recorded as http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/kill.html[5].
  • kill's reads environment variable is recorded as LANG[6].
  • kill's reads environment variable is recorded as LC_ALL[7].
  • kill's reads environment variable is recorded as LC_CTYPE[8].
  • kill's reads environment variable is recorded as LC_MESSAGES[9].
  • kill's reads environment variable is recorded as NLSPATH[10].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as l[11].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as s[12].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as SIGABRT[13].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as ABRT[14].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as sigabrt[15].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as abrt[16].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as SIGBUS[17].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as BUS[18].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as sigbus[19].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as bus[20].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as SIGCHLD[21].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as CHLD[22].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as sigchld[23].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as chld[24].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as SIGCONT[25].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as CONT[26].
  • kill's has command line option is recorded as sigcont[27].

Why It Matters

kill draws 56 Wikipedia views per month (standard_unix_utility_or_command category, ranking #36 of 124).[2] kill has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] kill is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . pubs.opengroup.org. pubs.opengroup.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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