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).

Examples

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

See also

• killall, pkill, xkill
• kill in Windows is an alias for Stop-Process cmdlet