How to restart dock when dock hang in Mac OS X

Sometimes due to some error, you might encounter your dock hang and no respond in your Mac OS X. I encounter this issue few times and it very irritating while my dock hang. If you dock hang and not responding like mine, you may want to restart your dock thru the following method.

To restart dock in Mac OS X, follow the steps below:-

Start your terminal
Enter the command below:-

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kill -HUP `ps auxc | grep Dock | awk '{print $2}'`

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kill -HUP `ps auxc | grep Dock | awk '{print $2}'`
Now your dock should be restarting and back to normal again.