send SIGTERM with command line shortcut

No, SIGTERM cannot be sent from the command line, as noted at: https://superuser.com/a/343611/199930.

See also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/362559/43390

It's not entirely true that you can't send SIGTERM from the command line. You can't send it from a keyboard shortcut, but you can send it from the command line.

Based on the man-page for kill, you are able to send a SIGTERM to any process. You would accomplish this by finding your process in the process table (type ps) and then type kill -15 [pid].

Here is a list of the keyboard shortcuts that you can use in a terminal to handle processes:

• Ctrl+C sends SIGINT which asks to interrupt a program but can be caught or ignored.
• Ctrl+Z sends SIGTSTP which asks to pause a program but can be caught or ignored. This process can be resumed later.
• Ctrl+\ sends SIGQUIT which is the same as SIGINT except it also produces a core dump.

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