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Htop Process Actions, Signals, and Priority Changes/Use htop to locate a PID, then kill from shell

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Section: Priority and signals

Use htop to locate a PID, then kill from shell

bash
bash
kill -TERM 12345
Explanation

TERM asks the process to exit cleanly before resorting to stronger signals.

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