github.com/flavio/docker@v0.1.3-0.20170117145210-f63d1a6eec47/docs/reference/commandline/kill.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "kill" 3 description: "The kill command description and usage" 4 keywords: "container, kill, signal" 5 --- 6 7 <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github 8 repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all 9 pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in 10 another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will 11 periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull 12 requests which include edits to this file in other repositories 13 will be rejected. 14 --> 15 16 # kill 17 18 ```markdown 19 Usage: docker kill [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] 20 21 Kill one or more running containers 22 23 Options: 24 --help Print usage 25 -s, --signal string Signal to send to the container (default "KILL") 26 ``` 27 28 The main process inside the container will be sent `SIGKILL`, or any 29 signal specified with option `--signal`. 30 31 > **Note:** 32 > `ENTRYPOINT` and `CMD` in the *shell* form run as a subcommand of `/bin/sh -c`, 33 > which does not pass signals. This means that the executable is not the container’s PID 1 34 > and does not receive Unix signals.