Kill process listening on a TCP port

Zoheb Sait
Zoheb Sait
Published in
1 min readNov 2, 2016

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Here’s a tiny shell script I use to quickly kill of whatever process is hogging a TCP port.

$ cat portkill.sh
#!/bin/sh
lsof -i :$1 | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 1 | xargs kill -9

Usage:
# kills process on port 8000
$ ./portkill.sh 8000

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