[PLUG] TLDR++, a tool to search, study, and practice Linux commands on the fly...

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jan 5 22:00:05 UTC 2019


On Sat, 5 Jan 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:

> As a LINUX user, should I trust documenation made possible by competing
> platforms?

Ben,

   Sure. There's little that will lead the reader astray. Regardless, there
are abundant web sites (one is, I think, unixcraft or nixcraft) that have
expanded man pages with examples. A quick search on DDG for 'linux kill'
returns these sources:

How to Kill a Process from the Command Line - Linux.com 
Thankfully, Linux has every tool necessary to empower you, the user, to kill
an errant process. However, before you immediately launch that command to
kill the process, you first have to know what the process is. [Search domain
www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/5/how-kill-process-command-line]
https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/5/how-kill-process-command-line

How To Use ps, kill, and nice to Manage Processes in Linux ...
A Linux server, like any other computer you may be familiar with, runs
applications. To the computer, these are considered "processes". While Linux
will handle the low-level, behind-the-scenes management in a process's
life-cycle, you will need a way of interacting with the operating system to
... [Search domain
www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ps-kill-and-nice-to-manage-processes-in-linux]
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ps-kill-and-nice-to-manage-processes-in-linux

How to use the kill Command, by The Linux Information Project ...
The kill command is used on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems to
terminate processes without having to log out or reboot (i.e., restart) the
computer. Thus, it is particularly important to the stability of such
systems. A process, also referred to as a task, is an executing (i.e.,
running) instance of a program. [Search domain www.linfo.org/kill.html]
www.linfo.org/kill.html

Linux kill Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Linux kill command. The kill command is usually used to kill a process.
Internally it sends a signal, and depending on what you want to do, there
are different signals that you can send using this tool. [Search domain
www.howtoforge.com/linux-kill-command/]
https://www.howtoforge.com/linux-kill-command/

Regards,

Rich



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