title: How to shut down Android emulator via command line
body: <p>I am unable to stop the emulator from command prompt gracefully.</p>
  <p>I am using Linux Ubuntu v10.04 (64-bit) and Android v2.3 (API 9 - Gingerbread).</p>
  <p>I started emulator using its snapshot. Now my concern is to shut down the running instance of Emulator gracefully. I have tried with <code>kill -9</code> (process Id for emulator running) which shuts down the emulator but next time it does not start as its snapshot got corrupted. Please help me to avoid forceful shutdown of the an emulator.</p>
  <p>Any idea how to fix it?</p>