In UNIX, what is the command to kill a process?
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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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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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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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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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Answer / bandi sreekanth
if u want kill process by command
use this
PKILL <COMMAND_NAME>
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