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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

Bash October 17, 2026 Linux compress and extract tar.gz and zip archives Creates and unpacks the two most common archive formats.

tar -czf backup.tar.gz folder/        # create tar.gz
tar -xzf backup.tar.gz                # extract
tar -xzf backup.tar.gz -C /target/    # extract to a folder
zip -r site.zip folder/               # create zip