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Linux pkill Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)

In Linux, if you need to kill a process (for whatever reason) through the command line, you can you use the kill command, which requires you to pass as input the ID of the process you’re trying to terminate. But did you know there also exists a way to kill processes without specifying their PIDs?

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