skill, snice - send a signal or report process status

       Albert Cahalan wrote skill and snice in 1999 as a replacement for a non-free version.

       These  tools  are  obsolete  and  unportable.   The command syntax is poorly defined.  Consider using the
       killall, pkill, and pgrep commands instead.

       The default signal for skill is TERM.  Use -l or -L  to  list  available  signals.   Particularly  useful
       signals  include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0.  Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9-SIGKILL-KILL.

       The default priority for snice is +4.  Priority numbers  range  from  +20  (slowest)  to  -20  (fastest).
       Negative priority numbers are restricted to administrative users.

snice-cseti-ccrack+7
              +Slow down seti and crack commands.

       skill-KILL-t/dev/pts/*
              Kill users on PTY devices.

       skill-STOP-uviro-ulm-udavem
              Stop three users.

       skill, snice - send a signal or report process status

-f, --fast
              Fast mode.  This option has not been implemented.

       -i, --interactive
              Interactive use.  You will be asked to approve each action.

       -l, --list
              List all signal names.

       -L, --table
              List all signal names in a nice table.

       -n, --no-action
              No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not actually change the system.

       -v, --verbose
              Verbose; explain what is being done.

       -w, --warnings
              Enable warnings.  This option has not been implemented.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information.

       Selection criteria can be: terminal, user, pid, command.  The options below may be used to ensure correct
       interpretation.

       -t, --ttytty
              The next expression is a terminal (tty or pty).

       -u, --useruser
              The next expression is a username.

       -p, --pidpid
              The next expression is a process ID number.

       -c, --commandcommand
              The next expression is a command name.

       --nspid
              Match the processes that belong to the same namespace as pid.

       --nslistns,...
              list  which  namespaces  will  be considered for the --ns option.  Available namespaces: ipc, mnt,
              net, pid, user, uts.

       Please send bug reports to procps@freelists.org

procps-ng                                          2023-08-19                                           SKILL(1)

kill(1), kill(2), killall(1), nice(1), pkill(1), renice(1), signal(7)

       The behavior of signals is explained in signal(7) manual page.

       No standards apply.

skill [signal] [options] expressionsnice [newpriority] [options] expression