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🎀 apptainer oci kill — manual page energy 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the apptainer(1) manual page for apptainer oci kill. this one is short and iconic: it kills a container, and it is root user only — yes, only root, no cap. 👑

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💖 NAME 💖

apptainer-oci-kill — kill a container (root user only). that's literally the name and the job, periodt. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

apptainer oci kill [kill options...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so kill invokes the kill operation to kill processes running within the container identified by container ID. that's the whole mission: processes inside that container get the kill treatment. 💀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f, --force[=false] — kill container process with SIGKILL (yes, the dramatic one 💀).
• -h, --help[=false] — help for kill, the classic.
• -s, --signal="SIGTERM" — signal sent to the container, and the default is literally "SIGTERM" right there in the flag.
• -t, --timeout=0 — timeout in second before killing container, default 0.

🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

the vibe in command form, bestie:

$ apptainer oci kill mycontainer INT
$ apptainer oci kill mycontainer -s INT

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

apptainer-oci(1) — go check that one too, bestie. 🫶

📜 HISTORY 📜

22-Oct-2026 — Auto generated by spf13/cobra. yes, it says that fr fr.

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okay bye bestie 💋 — this page was Auto generated by spf13/cobra in Oct 2026 for apptainer(1), mwah 🫶✨