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Bash October 17, 2026 Linux find and kill a process by port or name Finds what is listening on a port and stops it. Try a normal kill first and only use kill -9 if the process won’t stop. ss -tulpn | grep :8000 # who is using port 8000 lsof -i :8000 # same, with lsof kill <PID> # graceful stop kill -9 <PID> # force stop

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