Editing Kill (command) (section)

{{Short description|Command in several OSes to terminate a process}}
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{{for|the 2016 British science fiction thriller film|Kill Command}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = kill
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| author                 = [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]]
| developer              = Various [[open-source software|open-source]] and [[commercial software|commercial]] developers
| released               = {{Start date and age|1973|2}}
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| operating system       = [[Unix]], [[Unix-like]], [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs|Plan 9]], [[Inferno (operating system)|Inferno]], [[OS-9]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[ReactOS]], [[Singularity (operating system)|Singularity]], [[IBM i]]
| platform               = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre                  = [[Command (computing)|Command]]
| license                = ReactOS: [[LGPL-2.1-or-later]]
| website                = 
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In [[computing]], '''<code>kill</code>''' is a [[command (computing)|command]] that is used in several popular [[operating system]]s to send [[Signal (IPC)|signals]] to running [[process (computing)|processes]].