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								[](https://travis-ci.org/ehmicky/human-signals)
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								[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/human-signals)
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								[](https://gitter.im/ehmicky/human-signals)
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								[](https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=ehmicky)
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								[](https://medium.com/@ehmicky)
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								Human-friendly process signals.
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								This is a map of known process signals with some information about each signal.
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								- whether the signal is [supported](#supported) by the current OS
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								//   name: 'SIGINT',
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								//   number: 2,
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								```bash
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								## signalsByName
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								## signalsByNumber
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								Signal object with the following properties.
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								Code number of the signal, for example `2`. While most `number` are
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								### description
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								The list of supported signals
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								_Type_: `string`<br>_Enum_: `'ansi'`, `'posix'`, `'bsd'`, `'systemv'`, `'other'`
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								# Contributing
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								This project was made with ❤️. The simplest way to give back is by starring and
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