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- | kill is the standard Unix utility for terminating nasty processes. You only have the right to kill your own processes. Some processes do not respond to the standard kill command. These processes might need a more forceful signal such as -9. The command killall can help you to kill multiple processes at once. man kill and man killall will give you the details about these commands. | + | kill is the standard Unix utility for terminating nasty processes. You only have the right to kill your own processes. Some processes do not respond to the standard kill command. These processes might need a more forceful signal such as -9. The command killall can help you to kill multiple processes at once. //man kill// and //man killall// will give you the details about these commands. |