# How to kill job

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-kill-job/1246>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [October 21, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-kill-job/1246 "2018-10-21T13:22:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nekcorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nekcorp](https://community.openpbs.org/u/nekcorp)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-kill-job/1246/1 "2018-10-21T13:22:08Z")

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Hi,

I would like to know the linux command to kill a job. I have seen kill -TERM command but does not work.

Where can I see all commands available ?

regards

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**Author:** ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 7:55am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-kill-job/1246/2 "2018-10-22T07:55:49Z")

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Please try :

```
qdel <job id> # qdel 100
qdel -W force <job id> # qdel -W force 100 ,  
                              but make sure delete the job files on the
                              compute node / mother superior node
                               - /var/spool/pbs/mom_priv/jobs
kill -TERM <SESSION ID of the JoB or process ID attached to that job
```

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**Author:** ![nekcorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nekcorp](https://community.openpbs.org/u/nekcorp)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-kill-job/1246/3 "2018-10-22T16:06:18Z")

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I found : _qdel_