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

Answer Posted / 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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