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Date: October 23, 2023

How to kill process based on the port number in Linux
 Learn to kill a process by port in Linux using fuser, lsof, and ss commands. Essential for system admins managing network processes efficiently.
 LinuxConfig · linuxconfig.org [1]

I've often struggled to find and kill a process using a certain port on archlinux. Mainly becuase most guides use netstat rather than `ss`.

Here is how I just killed the process using port 5000 using `fuser`.

``` bash
sudo fuser -k 5000/tcp
```

You can also get information about the process by running `lsof`

``` bash
❯ lsof -i :5000
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
thoughts 1058292 waylon 11u IPv4 119622828 0t0 TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN)
```

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