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category-title: Intermediate commands
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author: Announ Marwan
title: kill
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<h1>Kill Commands</h1>
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<h2> Before all, what is a "kill command"!?</h2>
<br><br> "kill" is a command used for terminating the
<br>running processes on your system.
<br>
<br> In fact, using this commands you can easily kill all the processes that you want.
<br><br><br>
<h2>Why I have to use it? </h2>
<br><br> Sometimes happens that you couldn't control an application, for example when
<br>you want to exit from your browser when it seems freezing.
<br><br> You have to know that "kill commands" can help you in do this.

<br><br><br><br>Ok, good, I understand, but how can I use it?

<br> First, you have to know that there are two type of kill commands.

<pre>
  -killall
<br>-kill
</pre>

<br><br>  <h3> KILLALL   </h3>

<br> Will terminate all programs that match the name specified without
<br>additional arguments.
<br><br> You have to know also that "killall" sends SIGTERM, or signal number 15.
<br>If you want to specify a different signal you can use "-s".


<br><br> <p> examples of using killall</p>

<pre>
<br>-killall -s 9 [process name]
<br>-killall -KILL [process name]
<br>-killall -9 [process name]

</pre>

<br><br>  <h4> KILL  </h4>

<br> Will terminate only one program.
<br> Without Without options, kill sends SIGTERM to the PID specified and asks the application
<br>or service to shut itself down.

<br><br><p> examples of using only kill</p>

<pre>
<br>-kill [PID]
<br>-kill -s KILL [PID]
<br>-kill -KILL [PID]

</pre>

<h4> Now, you can close all the programs with this commands, have a fun :)</h4>



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