- 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.
- sudo kill -9 process_id_1 process_id_2 process_id_3
- You can also use the kill and pidof commands together to kill all of a program's processes.
- sudo kill -9 `pidof programe_name`
- Naturally, you must replace program name with the name of the programme you wish to terminate.
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