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Process Lookup Made Very Easy

Need to find or kill a process? Use the utilities pgrep and pkill. For example, the command pkill -INT -u root sshd sends the INT signal to the sshd process owned by root.

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Need to find or kill a process? Use the utilities pgrep and pkill. For example, the command pkill -INT -u root sshd sends the INT signal to the sshd process owned by root.

Martin Streicher is a former Editor-in-Chief of Linux Magazine. Contact him at martin.streicher@linux-mag.com.

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