How do I kill a specific process on listen? Mar 25, 2021 This command shows how you can kill a process that is listening at a specific port $ lsof -i :8080 -sTCP:LISTEN |awk 'NR > 1 {print $2}' |xargs kill -9 source: by https://serverfault.com/questions/847096/getting-pid-from-lsof-list