find what uses a port like 8080 kill the process on mac

Many a times during debugging, you find that your port is already used. You can find at this point where it is used and kill the process.


Step 1: Find all processes using port
$ netstat -vanp tcp | grep 8080


Step 2: Kill the task
eg: $ sudo kill -9 73804


Refer screen shot below:

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