How Do I Stop a Script from Running in the Background Linux?
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Assuming it’s running in the background, under your user id: use ps to find the command’s PID. Then use kill [PID] to stop it. If kill by itself doesn’t do the job, do kill -9 [PID] . If it’s running in the foreground, Ctrl-C (Control C) should stop it.

How do I stop a program from running in the background in Linux?

Here’s what we do:

  1. Use the ps command to get the process id (PID) of the process we want to terminate.
  2. Issue a kill command for that PID.
  3. If the process refuses to terminate (i.e., it is ignoring the signal), send increasingly harsh signals until it does terminate.

How do I stop a script in Linux?

To stop script, type exit and press [Enter]. If the script can not write to the named log file then it shows an error.

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