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203How do I stop a process or command that's running in the background?
The commands described below need to be entered while logged in to the Unix server. Normally you'll see a prompt ending with $ when the command interpreter (or shell) is ready for another command.
Issue the command :-
ps -fu username
(where username is your own username, such as ano23) to see which other processes you have running. For example:
ps -fu ano23
Then, find the process number (PID) of the process (on the second column of the output from the ps command), and give the command
kill -9 pid
where pid is the process number for the command you want to stop.
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