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I stopped using the Unix process ctr + z. Then I tried to kill the process and did not work. A friend from school was recommended to use the kill -9 process_id. What is the magic combination?

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Just follow normal kill by a resume (SIGCONT or in shell, fg the job).

The signal will only be received after the process is resumed (it cannot receive the signal because... you suspended it :))

So, 

kill -CONT $pid

to resume it if you no longer have access to the terminal or shell controlling the job

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