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Ctrl-\ sends SIGQUIT (terminate and dump core).

You could suspend a process by using Ctrl-Z and then running a command such a kill %1 (depending on how many background processes you have running) to snuff it out. There are other control sequence options as well.

This assumes, of course, that you've just started running it and that you're still on the command line with the process running in the foreground. The most obvious way to kill a process is probably to type Ctrl-C. In this post, we take a quick look at some of the commands and options that are likely to be the most useful.

Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat.