Kill a background process

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To kill any running process, please use the command:

kill processid

Basically, kill lets you send a signal to the running process. For example, to send the terminate signal, you can use

kill -9 processid

You can use kill -l to get list of all available signals.

There is a process running in the background with the name tail. Can you kill it?

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