port-to-process

Given a system port number, show what proccesses are listening on the port.

Syntax:

port-to-process <port number> ...

Example:

port-to-process 80

Example to check ports for SSH, HTTP, IRC:

port-to-process 22 80 194

Example to kill port processes:

port-to-process 80 | xargs kill -9

Install

Option 1: download the file to wherever you want, then make it executable.

cd /usr/local/bin/
sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SixArm/port-to-process/master/port-to-process
sudo chmod +x port-to-process

Option 2: clone the repo to anywhere you want, then add it to your path.

cd /anywhere/you/want
git clone https://github.com/SixArm/port-to-process.git   
export PATH="$PATH:/anywhere/you/want/port-to-process"

If you would like to help us by writing a package for any popular package manager, such as apt, yum, brew, etc., we wecome help.

Implementation

This program aims to run on a wide variety of current Unix systems:

• Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.
• RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, etc.
• macOS

This program looks up the port information using a variety of commands such as:

• ss -lptn 'sport = :80'

• lsof -n -i :80

• netstat --numeric --listening --program | grep 80

• fuser -v -n tcp 80

• sockstat -4 -l | grep :80 | awk '{print $3}' | head -1

Tracking

• Command: port-to-process
• Version: 4.1.1
• Updated: 2023-04-25T11:13:34Z
• License: GPL-2.0 or GPL-3.0 or contact us for custom
• Contact: Joel Parker Henderson (http://joelparkerhenderson.com)