Locate and kill process

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To find a specific process and kill that process, you can use pgrep and kill

pgrep command below will find the process that contains the word npm and show the command that started the process.

pgrep -a npm # output: 3759148 npm start

kill command below will terminate the process with specified process ID forcefully because -9 signifies a SIGKILL signal, which kills the process without giving it the chance to clean up the process. Without -9, the kill command will use the default signal SIGTERM (-15) which will terminate the process gracefully.

kill -9 3759148