In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process?

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / dilipsimha

kill -9 <pid>
this is for force killing
kill <pid>
just try to kill
killall <pname>
this is to kill all instances of a process with name pname

killall -9 <pname>

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / venkatn_999

kill processid

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / jagadeeb choudhury

Kill -9 <PID> or Kill -s Kill <PID>
To Kill a process forcibly or definitely kill.

Kill -15 <PID> or kill -s term <PID>
To terminate a Process.

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / srinivas kalvacherla

How to terminate process by name in UNIX
kill -9 `ps -ef | grep process_name | grep -v grep |
awk '{print $2}'`

Note that the grep process_name should be the command that
you ran. Also note that the commands after 'kill -9' are
enclosed in backtiks.

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / vinod b

kill -9 uses SIGKILL signal which should not be used
because its forcible killing ,it cant be blocked or cached .

kill -15 PID will be suitable .else use killall pid as
explained in an earlier ans. kill -15 is a Termination
signal(SIGTERM)

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / bandi sreekanth

if u want kill process by command

use this

PKILL <COMMAND_NAME>

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / kiruthiga.s

kill

syntax: kill pid

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / yuvaevergreen

kill

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / shiva

kill processid

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In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process? ..

Answer / ketan

Kill $!

kills all the processes

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