--- title: "kill" description: "The kill command description and usage" keywords: ["container, kill, signal"] --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # kill ```markdown Usage: docker kill [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] Kill one or more running containers Options: --help Print usage -s, --signal string Signal to send to the container (default "KILL") ``` The main process inside the container will be sent `SIGKILL`, or any signal specified with option `--signal`. > **Note:** > `ENTRYPOINT` and `CMD` in the *shell* form run as a subcommand of `/bin/sh -c`, > which does not pass signals. This means that the executable is not the container’s PID 1 > and does not receive Unix signals.