Sometimes it's necessary to kill a process. This is normally only done by a system administrator, but you can kill any processes you have started. The command for killing a process is:
kill 2462
The number that follows the kill command is the process identification number (PID) you can find by first listing all active processes (ps). The number 2462 in the above example would have killed the first find process from Figure 5. This process has run for 4 seconds and is using about 11% of my CPU's capacity. It it were to run much longer it would be a good candidate for killing. Of course, some processes run so fast that there is no practical way to kill them - they are finished long before you can type in the kill command.
