Kill a process by port

4/10/2019
· 1 min read

How to kill a process with a given port:

On linux:

function killPort {
  kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:$1)
}

On mac:

function killPort {
  kill -9 `netstat -vanp tcp | grep $1 | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $9 }'`
}

And for all plateforms, with Node (and npx) installed:

npx fkill-cli :3001

with a cli tool called fkill, that can kill anything by all the ways you want:

You can find this page with theses search keywords:

/ node / fkill / cli /
Mathieu TUDISCO
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