1podman-kill(1)              General Commands Manual             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,
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OPTIONS

22   --all, -a
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32       Instead  of  providing  the  container name or ID, use the last created
33       container. If you use methods other than Podman to run containers  such
34       as  CRI-O,  the  last  started  container could be from either of those
35       methods. (This option is not available with the remote  Podman  client,
36       including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
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39   --signal, -s=signal
40       Signal to send to the container. For more information on Linux signals,
41       refer to signal(7).  The default is SIGKILL.
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EXAMPLE

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62              podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23
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83              podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
84              podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
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SEE ALSO

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

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