github.com/containers/podman/v2@v2.2.2-0.20210501105131-c1e07d070c4c/docs/source/markdown/podman-kill.1.md (about) 1 % podman-kill(1) 2 3 ## NAME 4 podman\-kill - Kill the main process in one or more containers 5 6 ## SYNOPSIS 7 **podman kill** [*options*] [*container* ...] 8 9 **podman container kill** [*options*] [*container* ...] 10 11 ## DESCRIPTION 12 The main process inside each container specified will be sent SIGKILL, or any signal specified with option --signal. 13 14 ## OPTIONS 15 #### **--all**, **-a** 16 17 Signal all running containers. This does not include paused containers. 18 19 #### **--latest**, **-l** 20 21 Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use methods other than Podman 22 to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. 23 24 The latest option is not supported on the remote client. 25 26 #### **--signal**, **-s** 27 28 Signal to send to the container. For more information on Linux signals, refer to *man signal(7)*. 29 30 31 ## EXAMPLE 32 33 podman kill mywebserver 34 35 podman kill 860a4b23 36 37 podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23 38 39 podman kill --latest 40 41 podman kill --signal KILL -a 42 43 ## SEE ALSO 44 podman(1), podman-stop(1) 45 46 ## HISTORY 47 September 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude <bbaude@redhat.com>