In this lesson, we will learn how to terminate or kill processes.
Terminating a Process with kill
The kill
command allows you to send a signal to a process, asking it to terminate.
kill PID
- Replace
PID
with the process ID.
Forcefully Terminating a Process with kill -9
If a process does not respond to a regular kill
, you can use kill -9
to force it to terminate.
kill -9 PID