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What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?

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What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?..

Answer / bharath

kill <pid>
allows to kill the normal process.
where as
kill -9 <pid>
to kill normal process and also background process.

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What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?..

Answer / majeed090

kill <pid>
to kill all process but not kill the some child process
called Zombie process.

kill -9 <pid>
by using this it kills all process forcefully.

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What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?..

Answer / sai

kill command uses signal SIGTERM to kill processes by default it is kill -15
kill -9 uses the sinal SIGKILL to kill a processes (i.e force termination of processes )

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What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?..

Answer / guest

kill used for terminate the process but kill -9 used to
kill process forcefully

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