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kill sends a signal to a process, most often to ask it to stop. The pkill variant that ships alongside it selects processes by name rather than identifier. Learn it so you can end a hung task cleanly instead of restarting the whole device.
Install it
Included with Termux
Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and
do nothing.
Commands worth knowing
6 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.
kill 4321 Send the default polite termination signal to a process by its identifier. It gets a chance to clean up. kill -9 4321 Force a process to end immediately when it ignores the polite request. Cleanup is skipped. kill -l List the names and numbers of every available signal. Pick the right one. kill -HUP 4321 Ask a process to reload its configuration without stopping. Many background services support this. kill -STOP 4321 Pause a running process in place. Resume it later with the continue signal. kill -0 4321 Check whether a process exists and whether you are allowed to signal it. Nothing is actually sent. Developed by
procps-ng project · released under GPL-2.0-or-later.