The kill Command. The basic command used to kill a process in Linux is kill. This command works in conjunction with the ID of the process – or PID – we want to end. Besides the PID, we can also end processes using other identifiers, as we’ll see further down.

How do I kill all background processes in Linux?

You can use the command ps auxf to view a hierarchical tree of all running processes. Once you have obtained the PID or process name, use killall or kill to terminate the process as above. Another option to find the PID is though pgrep .

How do you stop a process running in the background?

Removing a background process (kill command)

1. Use the ps command to determine the process ID of the process you want to remove. You might want to pipe this command through a grep command to list only the process you want. …
2. In the following example, you issue the find command to run in the background.