Linux Kill Process

4 Ways to Kill a Process – kill, killall, pkill, xkill

by Ramesh Natarajan on December 2, 2009

Kill UNIX / Linux Process Immediately

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Kill command is use to send signal to a process or to kill a process. We typically use kill -SIGNAL PID, where you know the PID of the process.

There are other ways to effectively kill a process — killing a process by name, killing a process by specifying part of the name, killing a process by pointing out the process with cursor etc.,

In this article, let us review 4 ways to kill a process.

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