Write a command to kill the last background job?

Kill $!

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sameer

Jan 14th, 2007

To kill the last background job, the following command is used:
$ kill $!
The system variable $! stores the PID of the last background job.
The other method is first find the PID using the ps command, then use kill command to do the job.