kill-process-by-port.sh

kill.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Check if a port number was provided
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 port_number"
    exit 1
fi

# Assign the first argument to a variable
PORT=$1

# Find the process that is using the port
PID=$(sudo lsof -t -i:$PORT)

# Check if a PID was found
if [ -z "$PID" ]; then
    echo "No process found using port $PORT."
    exit 1
else
    echo "Killing process with PID $PID that is using port $PORT."
    sudo kill $PID

    # Check if the kill command was successful
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Process terminated successfully."
    else
        echo "Error trying to terminate process $PID."
        exit 1
    fi
fi