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Cameron Evans
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This article explains about kill command with an example in unix.
kill command is used to Send a signal to a process to terminate a process in unix.
Syntax of kill Command
kill [- options] pid
Example of kill Command
Example 1 : To terminate process id 10
kill 10
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