Terminal question (kill a process)

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vox barbaravox barbara
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
How do you kill a process if you know the process id?

What is the appropriate syntax?



thank you

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    mcqmcq Posts: 1,543member
    kill pid



    or if it's stubborn

    kill -9 pid



    so, for example

    kill 12782

    kill -9 12782
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  • Reply 2 of 6
    rara Posts: 623member
    Use the kill command. Open the Terminal and type 'man kill' to read all about it.
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  • Reply 3 of 6
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by MCQ

    kill pid



    or if it's stubborn

    kill -9 pid



    so, for example

    kill 12782

    kill -9 12782



    nice, thank you



    --



    EDIT: I don't want to bother you, but do you know a neat cmd, which covers

    all build-in hardware within the computer?

    For Example: "top" covers all active processes, is there something similar for "hardware"?



    I do know "hostinfo" already, but this cmd is very basic



    thank you again.

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  • Reply 4 of 6
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ra

    Use the kill command. Open the Terminal and type 'man kill' to read all about it.



    nice
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  • Reply 5 of 6
    talksense101talksense101 Posts: 1,738member
    Get yourself one of those good Unix books out there. O'Reilly has a few specific to OS-X.
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  • Reply 6 of 6
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by talksense101

    Get yourself one of those good Unix books out there. O'Reilly has a few specific to OS-X.



    Thank you for the advice, but i was really looking for these cmds i mentioned in the first place.

    No intentions to go further
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