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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
orkill -KILL 56568
orkill -s KILL 56568
Send SIGTERM signal
kill -15 56568
orkill -TERM 56568
orkill -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
Jobs:
Related commands
disown
podman kill
pkill
docker kill
esxcli vm process kill -w 692XX -t soft
- Zombie process
enable
: enable -n kill- Builtin: Bash buildins
- wait
- kill -6
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 jobs
,jobs -l, bg
,fg
,disown
,wait
,nohup, kill, trap
- 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
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