Kill a process running on port 8080

lsof -i :8080 | awk '{l=$2} END {print l}' | xargs kill

June 15, 2018 — jamestomasino

Explanation

As before, we're using lsof to find the PID of the process running on port 8080. We use awk to store the second column of each line into a variable l, overwriting it with each line. In the END clause, we're left with the second column of only the last line. xargs passes that as a parameter to the kill command.

The only notable diffirence from the command listed above is the use of awk to also complete the tail -n 1 step. This awk pattern matches the same intended behavior of the script that was using tail. To kill all processes on that port, you could use the NR>1 clause instead of the variable loop.

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Kill a process running on port 8080

lsof -i :8080 | awk '{print $2}' | tail -n 1 | xargs kill

August 18, 2017 — kimbethwel