find process and kill linux code example

Example 1: linux kill process

ps -ef| grep <name or substring of the program> #Find the all program threads
kill - 9 <PID> # Kill it immediately (Second column from above command)

Example 2: how to kill a process in linux

kill -KILL PIDnumber ... for example, kill -KILL 12345

Example 3: find and kill process

Find PID of process to kill with:
ps ax
Then just specify "kill PID" command as for example:
kill 16320
kill -9 16320 	#Force kill in case process is not answering.