kill a process id (pid)

How to kill a process in linux

when you open a file or it it is not opening or any trouble with its process then you can simple kill the process in linux

to see the current running process in linux

#ps -aux

it will show the process like this

to kill the process simple kill the pid ( process id)

#kill pid

means if would like to kill a process runing on 2049 means do like this

#kill  -9 2049

here it will kills the 2049 pid