This is done by issuing the "kill" command from a terminal session, which instructs the Unix system to terminate the process.

There are even more ways to kill a process on a Unix/Linux system than there are ways to skin a cat.

What really happens when you invoke the kill command is that a signal is sent to your application. kill allows the user to specify different signals to send to applications, but applications in turn ...

As you can see in "There's more than one way to kill a Unix process", Unix and Linux systems offer a convenient selection of commands for terminating processes regardless of why you want them dead.

If you have a process ID but aren't sure whether it's valid, you can use the most unlikely of candidates to test it: the kill command. If you don't see any reference to this on the kill(1) man page, ...

If you have a process ID but aren't sure whether it's valid, you can use the most unlikely of candidates to test it: the kill command. If you don't see any reference to this on the kill(1) man page, ...