how to kill a running process in terminal code example

Example 1: kill pid

Find PID of process to kill with:
ps ax
Then just specify "kill PID" command as for example:
kill 16320
kill -9 16320 	#Force kill in case process is not answering.

Example 2: how to kill running process in linux

ps ux # list the running Process with PID
kill xxxx # hear xxxx is the process id