Equivalent of ctrl c in command to cancel a program

Question

I am running a long linux program in a remote machine, and I want to stop it, but my problem is that if I use the kill command then the program will exit without saving resu

Answer 1

I am doing as below way

killall -2 

or

kill -2 

I used to forget the the name of signal. i.e SIGINT/SIGKILL here so i am using number for that like killall -2 or killall -9