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How to Kill a Process Running on a Port

Johnny Simpson on September 18, 2022

It is common in Node.js and other languages to run a script on a certain port. Since ports can come in and out of use, it's also common to get the ...
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Sandro Miranda •

neat. that happens more often than we'd wanted to.
btw, i usually do sudo kill -9 $(sudo lsof -t -i:3000) to get the job done real quick.

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Johnny Simpson •

Nice, that's a pretty simple way of doing it

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ •

Sounds a bit pointless, given how linux already has the right tools for the job 🤔

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Johnny Simpson •

yeah I don't think you need a separate package for it either really. I guess it's just a wrapper for the basic linux commands.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ •

It's a lot of code for what could essentially be a one-liner though 😐

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ •

Unless many of your servers are running windows, it doesn't just sound pointless, but actually is.

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Daniel Hillmann •

Nice. I wrote a small CLI tool to help you also do this. Cross platform ofc.

npmjs.com/package/kill-port-process

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decker •

Good tip.

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Jashandeep Singh •

Thanks