CLI: Useful process management commands in Linux

For beginners, learning the Command Line Interface could be a vital tool in your arsenal. Master CLI commands to easily navigate between High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters and your personnel computer.

Here are some of the most helpful CLI commands for management of processes -

ps	To display the currently working processes
top	Display all running process
kill <pid>	Kill the process with the given pid
killall proc	Kill all the processes named proc
pkill pattern	will kill all processes matching the pattern
bg	List stopped or background jobs, resume a stopped job in the background
fg	Brings the most recent job to the foreground
fg n	Brings the job n to the foreground

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