1podman-kill(1)()                                              podman-kill(1)()
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NAME

6       podman-kill - Kill the main process in one or more containers
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SYNOPSIS

10       podman kill [options] [container ...]
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DESCRIPTION

17       The  main process inside each container specified will be sent SIGKILL,
18       or any signal specified with option --signal.
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OPTIONS

22   --all, -a
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32   --latest, -l
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34       container.  If you use methods other than Podman to run containers such
35       as CRI-O, the last started container could  be  from  either  of  those
36       methods.  (This  option is not available with the remote Podman client,
37       including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
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42       refer to man signal(7).
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EXAMPLE

46       Kill container with a given name
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63              podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23
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77              podman kill --signal KILL -a
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84              podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
85              podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
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SEE ALSO

90       podman(1), podman-stop(1)
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HISTORY

94       September  2017,  Originally  compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
95       ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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