How can I kill TCP port 16969 in Bash?

Question

I have an application which uses TCP port 16969. It sometimes requires a quick software kernel reboot on the fly. But if I launch it too fast, I am locked with

Answer 1

I think that:

lsof -i tcp:22 | grep LISTEN | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill

Should do the trick.

To double check what commands it wants to run before letting it loose add an echo before the kill like this:

lsof -i tcp:22 | grep LISTEN | awk '{print $2}' | xargs echo kill

It'll then list the PIDs that it would ordinarily kill