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Killing a Process

Explore how to manage and terminate running processes in Bash with the kill command. Learn the syntax for sending different signals to processes, including the use of the SIGKILL signal, and how this helps maintain system stability without needing to reboot.

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Definition:

The kill command is used on Linux shell to terminate processes without having to log out or reboot the computer. Hence, it ...