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Killing a Process

A process is a running program.

Command

  ps u

shows all processes that you are currently running. The command that the process is running is at the right end of each line. Find the one that you want to kill. Under heading PID is the process number. If n is the process number, then command

  kill -9 n

will stop the process.

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