Killing a process

• To get rid of a background job, use the kill command with the job number as an argument. For example, to kill job 2:

          % kill %2

• To get rid of only one process, use the kill command with the process ID as an argument. For example, to kill process 12030:

          % kill 12030

  If that doesn't kill it, use the -9 option:

          % kill -9 12030

  If even that doesn't kill it, ask a UC for help.

Warning!Once you have killed a job or process, it cannot be resumed. You can, however, start it over.

See `Finding your processes' to learn how to find out job numbers and process IDs.

John Shipman, john@nmt.edu Last updated: 1995/12/04 19:39:34 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/kill.html