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A Guide to Kill, Pkill and Killall Commands to Terminate a Process in Linux

By Tecmint

Linux Operating System comes with kill command to terminate a process. The command makes it possible to continue running the server without the need to reboot after a major change/update. Here comes the great power of Linux and this is one of the reasons, why Linux is running on 90% of servers, on the planet.

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