I used to have trouble with processes blocking ports while developing. I would type up a number of commands trying to find the pid of the process that’s blocking the port and kill that process. It was rather frustrating. Eventually I took the commands and wrote a script that kills processes based on the port that it’s using.
| lsof -i:$1 | awk '{print $2}' | grep -v -e "PID" | sort -u > temp.txt | |
| pids=`cat temp.txt` | |
| rm temp.txt | |
| echo "The ids: $pids" | |
| for id in $pids; do | |
| echo "killing $id"; | |
| kill -9 $id; | |
| done |
You run it with ./kill_script_by_port.sh with the port number as an argument.
The first line uses the lsof command to get the processes using that port. For example lsof -i:52639 outputs the following on my machine
| COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME | |
| Code\x20H 6181 tielman 52u IPv6 0x570f09f514ea1165 0t0 TCP *:52639 (LISTEN) |
This output gets piped into awk which gets the 2nd word of every line. grep removes the PID word. Finally sort -u removes any duplicate PIDs.
The rest of the code reads the PIDs into an array and loops through them killing all the processes that use the port.
If there’s a particular process you know you don’t want to kill, you can put the command for the process as an argument to grep -v -e before the awk in the pipeline. That process will be removed from the lsof output.
