IDG Contributor Network: There's more than one way kill a Unix process
Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take a quick look at some of the commands and options that are likely to be the most useful.
Control sequences
The most obvious way to kill a process is probably to type Ctrl-C. This assumes, of course, that you've just started running it and that you're still on the command line with the process running in the foreground. There are other control sequence options as well. You could suspend a process by using Ctrl-Z and then running a command such a kill %1 (depending on how many background processes you have running) to snuff it out.
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