List and kill processes

delete.txt

The most common kill signals are:

Signal Name.  Single Value.  Effect

SIGHUP           1             Hangup

SIGINT           2             Interrupt from keyboard

SIGKILL          9.            Kill signal

SIGTERM          15            Termination signal

SIGSTOP          17, 19, 23    Stop the process


kill SIGNAL PID

process.sh

# list processes

ps aux | grep chrome

#The aux options are as follows:
#    a = show processes for all users
#    u = display the process’s user/owner
#    x = also show processes not attached to a terminal

#The x option is important when you’re hunting for information regarding a graphical application.


# kill a process

# kill SIGNAL PID

kill -9 3554