Kill

kill is a command that is used in Linux and other operating systems to send signals to running processes. kill commands allows to send SIGKILL (kill -9 PID) signal that cause the process to terminate immediately (kill).

Linux Examples

"Kill" a process (send SIGKILL signal)

• kill -9 56568 or kill -KILL 56568 or kill -s KILL 56568

Send SIGTERM signal

• kill -15 56568 or kill -TERM 56568 or kill -s TERM 56568

Kill al process that belongs to a user:

• kill -9 `lsof -t -u USERNAME`

• Suspend process: kill -SIGSTOP PID
• Resume process: kill -SIGCONT PID

Related commands

• disown
• podman kill
• pkill
• docker kill
• esxcli vm process kill -w 692XX -t soft

See also

• kill [-s], killall, pkill, xkill, podman kill, docker kill, SIGINT, SIGTERM, rfkill, killall5, kill 1, launchctl kill (macOS), kill -9, kill -15, signal
• kill in Windows is an alias for Stop-Process cmdlet
• Process, zombie process, fork, thread: ps, tree, pstree, ps axf, proc, pwdx, which, watch, sar -q, tload, uptime, Interrupts, pgrep, tasklist (Windows), Zombie process, pstack, docker ps, docker-compose ps, jobs, acct, process mrelease, pidstat, IPC, pidof