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How to find and stop a process on a Mac
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Mar 15, 202654312 viewsConfidence Score0%
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How can I find the process id and stop the process that is running on port 8080 on a Mac? On Ubuntu this works: and I can find the process and run: didn't seem to work, how can I do this on Mac OS X Lion?
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ps -aux
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For historical reasons, 's options are a tangled and inconsistent mess. On OS X Lion, any of these should work: I don't have an ubuntu box handy to test, but according to the man page, isn't the right way to do it there either:
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