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                "content": "skill [signal] [options] expression\nsnice [new priority] [options] expression\n",
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                "content": "These tools are obsolete and unportable.  The command syntax is poorly defined.  Consider us‐\ning the killall, pkill, and pgrep commands instead.\n\nThe default signal for skill is TERM.  Use -l or -L to list available signals.   Particularly\nuseful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP, CONT, and 0.  Alternate signals may be specified\nin three ways: -9 -SIGKILL -KILL.\n\nThe default priority for snice is +4.  Priority numbers  range  from  +20  (slowest)  to  -20\n(fastest).  Negative priority numbers are restricted to administrative users.\n",
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                        "name": "-f --fast",
                        "content": "Fast mode.  This option has not been implemented.\n",
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                    {
                        "name": "-i --interactive",
                        "content": "Interactive use.  You will be asked to approve each action.\n",
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                    {
                        "name": "-l --list",
                        "content": "List all signal names.\n",
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                    {
                        "name": "-L --table",
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                    {
                        "name": "-n --no-action",
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                        "long": "--no-action"
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                    {
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                        "flag": "-v",
                        "long": "--verbose"
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                    {
                        "name": "-w --warnings",
                        "content": "Enable warnings.  This option has not been implemented.\n",
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                        "long": "--warnings"
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                        "name": "-h --help",
                        "content": "Display help text and exit.\n",
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                    {
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                        "content": "Display version information.\n",
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                "content": "Selection criteria can be: terminal, user, pid, command.  The options below may  be  used  to\nensure correct interpretation.\n",
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                        "name": "-t --tty",
                        "content": "The next expression is a terminal (tty or pty).\n",
                        "flag": "-t",
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                    {
                        "name": "-u --user",
                        "content": "The next expression is a username.\n",
                        "flag": "-u",
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                        "name": "-p --pid",
                        "content": "The next expression is a process ID number.\n",
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                        "long": "--pid"
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                    {
                        "name": "-c --command",
                        "content": "The next expression is a command name.\n\n--ns pid\nMatch the processes that belong to the same namespace as pid.\n\n--nslist ns,...\nlist  which  namespaces will be considered for the --ns option.  Available namespaces:\nipc, mnt, net, pid, user, uts.\n",
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            "SIGNALS": {
                "content": "The behavior of signals is explained in signal(7) manual page.\n",
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            "EXAMPLES": {
                "content": "",
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                    {
                        "name": "snice -c seti -c crack +7",
                        "content": "Slow down seti and crack commands.\n\nskill -KILL -t /dev/pts/*\nKill users on PTY devices.\n"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "skill -STOP -u viro -u lm -u davem",
                        "content": "Stop three users.\n"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "SEE ALSO": {
                "content": "kill(1), kill(2), killall(1), nice(1), pkill(1), renice(1), signal(7)\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "STANDARDS": {
                "content": "No standards apply.\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "AUTHOR": {
                "content": "Albert Cahalan ⟨albert@users.sf.net⟩ wrote skill and snice in 1999 as  a  replacement  for  a\nnon-free version.\n",
                "subsections": []
            },
            "REPORTING BUGS": {
                "content": "Please send bug reports to ⟨procps@freelists.org⟩\n\n\n\nprocps-ng                                    2018-05-31                                     SKILL(1)",
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