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Find and kill process on port

⚠️ MacOS only

List all the processes by ports with their PIDs

$ sudo lsof -i -P | grep LISTEN

The result should look like this:

rapportd 123 seraj 5u IPv4 0x84512a8572c9xxxx 0t0 TCP *:62003 (LISTEN)
rapportd 123 seraj 6u IPv6 0x84512a857627xxxx 0t0 TCP *:62003 (LISTEN)
mongod 414 seraj 9u IPv4 0x84512a857926xxxx 0t0 TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
Loom 3315 seraj 28u IPv4 0x84512a85785cxxxx 0t0 TCP localhost:11223 (LISTEN)
node 38238 seraj 22u IPv6 0x84512a857627xxxx 0t0 TCP *:5000 (LISTEN)
node 68336 seraj 22u IPv6 0x84512a858bb4xxxx 0t0 TCP *:443 (LISTEN)

The 2nd column is the PID of the process on the port in the last column

Now kill the process in that port by using sudo kill -9 <PID>

$ sudo kill -9 68336

68336 is the PID of the process running on port 443

Check again

$ sudo lsof -i -P | grep LISTEN
rapportd 123 seraj 5u IPv4 0x84512a8572c9xxxx 0t0 TCP *:62003 (LISTEN)
rapportd 123 seraj 6u IPv6 0x84512a857627xxxx 0t0 TCP *:62003 (LISTEN)
mongod 414 seraj 9u IPv4 0x84512a857926xxxx 0t0 TCP localhost:27017 (LISTEN)
Loom 3315 seraj 28u IPv4 0x84512a85785cxxxx 0t0 TCP localhost:11223 (LISTEN)
node 38238 seraj 22u IPv6 0x84512a857627xxxx 0t0 TCP *:5000 (LISTEN)

The process on port 443 is already stopped!

Cheers 🍻