How to stop a process in Terminal

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/103909/h...

Question links:
[Ending a process in unix instead of interrupting it]: https://superuser.com/questions/97261/en...

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[this answer]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/266388/...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 132

Ctrl + C

Ctrl + C is a the standard *nix way of signaling a process to abort.

ANSWER 2

Score 48

Try Ctrl + C. Also, Ctrl + Z might help if you want to suspend a process.

For further information, man kill.

If you're curious about the difference between suspend and terminate, this answer is a good starting point; the TL;DR version is, a suspended process can be resumed later and its execution can continue. A terminated (and killed) process will be gone.