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Kill is a program that can terminate or send a signal to process.

kill -9 pid

Would send signal 9 to process having specific pid. 9 Means KILL signal that is not catchable or ignorable. In other words it would signal process (some running application) to quit immediately.

pid - process identifier.

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This will send an unconditional termination signal to a process. No process is allowed to ignore this signal, so it will terminate any program or process. It is a rather ungraceful way to stop a program.

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