How to stop a process running in linux?



How to stop a process running in linux?..

Answer / Priti Paliwal

To stop a process running in Linux, you can use the 'kill' command. The basic syntax is 'kill -<signal> <PID>'. For example, 'kill -9 <PID>' sends the SIGKILL signal to terminate the process immediately.

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