github.com/hanks177/podman/v4@v4.1.3-0.20220613032544-16d90015bc83/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 and paused containers. 18 19 #### **--cidfile** 20 21 Read container ID from the specified file and remove the container. Can be specified multiple times. 22 23 #### **--latest**, **-l** 24 25 Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use methods other than Podman 26 to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines) 27 28 #### **--signal**, **-s** 29 30 Signal to send to the container. For more information on Linux signals, refer to *man signal(7)*. 31 32 33 ## EXAMPLE 34 35 Kill container with a given name 36 ``` 37 podman kill mywebserver 38 ``` 39 40 Kill container with a given ID 41 ``` 42 podman kill 860a4b23 43 ``` 44 45 Terminate container by sending `TERM` signal 46 ``` 47 podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23 48 ``` 49 50 Kill the latest container created by Podman 51 ``` 52 podman kill --latest 53 ``` 54 55 Terminate all containers by sending `KILL` signal 56 ``` 57 podman kill --signal KILL -a 58 ``` 59 60 Kill container using ID specified in a given files 61 ``` 62 podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 63 podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2 64 ``` 65 66 ## SEE ALSO 67 **[podman(1)](podman.1.md)**, **[podman-stop(1)](podman-stop.1.md)** 68 69 ## HISTORY 70 September 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude <bbaude@redhat.com>