Linux equivalent of taskkill

linux taskkill
Müller picture Müller · May 9, 2016 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

Could anybody please help me with the Linux equivalent of this command:

taskkill /F /IM myStupidProcess.exe /T

Thanks!

Answer

Joe picture Joe · May 9, 2016

kill -9 pid_of_process

or

killall -KILL myStupidProcess

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