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Use the 'kill' command with the appropriate signal. If you just want to kill the process without regard to doing so in a graceful manner you can use the 'kill' command with a signal that all programs cannot ignore, such as:

kill -9 12345

or

kill -KILL 12345

for process 12345. Be careful, however, because if the process is updating files or databases this would corrupt the database. It is better to start with a more gentle approach, which is to try the hangup signal, then the interrupt signal, the termination or stop signal, and then finally the 'KILL' signal.

Of course, if you know what the process is doing and don't care what happens when it is stopped, just use the 'kill -9' or 'kill -KILL' sequence.

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