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

See also

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