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Bash Man Page: kill <pid> vs kill -9 <pid>

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My man page does not document the difference between and Since these do different things why is the -9 not documented in the manpage? I thought maybe it was a shell specific things so I looked in the bash man page too but no luck. Bonus question: what does the -9 do?

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kill <pid>

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Fix for: Bash Man Page: kill <pid> vs kill -9 <pid>

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just sends a signal to the given process. The tells it which signal to send. Different numbers correspond to different common signals. , for example, is 2, so to send a process the signal issue the command The manpage here specifies: The default sig…

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