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A command-line tool to kill processes and containers running on specified ports.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-03-27 · latest 2026-03-20

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  1. …this and starting to use it daily! For the even less patient there's also this (not mine): https://github.com/jkfran/killport
    comment by pdimitar · 2026-03-20 · in Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost
  2. I love how there's a special case behavior for the hardcoded process name "docker." Just incredible: https://github.com/jkfran/killport/blob/main/src/linux.rs#L9... But seriously kids, take the time to learn Unix tools so you can save…
    comment by lopkeny12ko · 2023-04-25 · in Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port
  3. Looking at https://github.com/jkfran/killport/blob/3a43d037c08ab3aec730... , it will match on all four.
    comment by andylynch · 2023-04-25 · in Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port
  4. …an UNIX one liner), and an unhandled crash could lower the confidence of the user in the tool. [1] https://github.com/jkfran/killport/blob/3a43d037c08ab3aec730... [2] https://github.com/jkfran/killport/blob/3a43d037c08ab3aec730...
    comment by jraph · 2023-04-25 · in Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port
  5. Holy smokes: https://github.com/jkfran/killport/blob/main/src/linux.rs#L8...
    comment by lbj · 2023-04-25 · in Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port