Command-line Basics: Managing Processes

Recently we learned how to identify processes on our system. Obtaining the process ID or PID of a process gives us a unique identifier that we can use to manage the process in one way or another. Once we know the ID of a process we can begin to do magical things like setting the priority or even kill the process, both of which are super helpful when you have a process that has gone rogue and is eating up CPU. Getting Started Generally speaking, the tools we’re going to use in this article should...

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