How to kill a process on a port on ubuntu

Question

I am trying to kill a proccess in the command line for a specific port in ubuntu.

If I run this command I get the port:

sudo lsof -t -i:9001

so...now I want to run:

sudo kill 'sudo lsof -t -i:9001'

I get this error message:

ERROR: garbage process ID "lsof -t -i:9001".
Usage:
  kill pid ...              Send SIGTERM to every process listed.
  kill signal pid ...       Send a signal to every process listed.
  kill -s signal pid ...    Send a signal to every process listed.
  kill -l                   List all signal names.
  kill -L                   List all signal names in a nice table.
  kill -l signal            Convert between signal numbers and names.

I tried sudo kill 'lsof -t -i:9001' as well

Answer 1

To kill the process based on port first we have to find out the relevant pid for given port and kill using that pid,

In my case i wanted to get the pid(process id) of 3000 port:

netstat -ltnp | grep -w '3000'

then find pid which is listening to tcp

tcp6       0      0 :::3000                 :::*                    LISTEN      29972/node  

you will get pid 29972

To kill this pid use below command

kill -9 26493

pseudo code for kill process based on port

 netstat -ltnp | grep -w 'PORT'

and

kill -9 PID