CLI Tools & Commands
System & Process Management
Reference guide for monitoring active tasks, controlling background services, and terminating unresponsive processes.
1. Interactive Process Monitors (Top & Htop)
Real-time system resource utilization tracking and process management in Unix-like terminal environments:
top
htop
2. Windows Task Termination
Forcefully kill misbehaving applications or background processes by their executable name or specific Process ID (PID):
taskkill /f /im notepad.exe
taskkill /f /pid 4120
3. Linux System Services Control (Systemctl)
Manage daemon configurations, check service statuses, and enable or disable boot processes using systemd:
sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo systemctl enable --now ufw