Kill Tool Examples

The following examples demonstrate the use of the Kill tool.

Terminate by name

The following command terminates processes whose names begin with "myapp."

kill myapp*

Terminate by PID

The following command terminates the process whose process ID (PID) is 2520:

kill 2520

Terminate forcibly

The following command terminates processes whose names begin with "my*." It does not prompt for confirmation. This command succeeds even when this process is a system service:

kill /f my*