5 quick ways to kill a process in Linux

To find a running process, you can use the ps, top, pgrep, or pidof commands. You can kill a process by name or process Id using the kilall, pkill, kill, xkill, or top commands. A kill process will send a termination signal of SIGTERM, SIGHUP, OR SIGKILL. You can use the System Monitor to kill the Linux process.