When you run an application, it starts a background process. You can kill the process
associated with this application to force it to shut.
To kill a process, you must first get its process ID (PID). The next section explains how to locate a program's process ID.
Determine the program's process ID (PID).
There are numerous methods for determining a process's PID.
pidof program name>
To find the name of the software, use the tab completion feature. This command has the advantage of displaying the PID of all processes started by the application.
Use the following command to stop the process after you know the PID of the target application:
sudo kill -9 process_id
If you have many process ids, you can kill them all at once by providing all of the PIDs.
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