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The fuser command on Mac OS X is rather primitive and can't check for processes listening on a specific port. Does anybody know a good alternative? It it enough to know which process listening on that one port.

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    Try sudo lsof -i -P
    – vcsjones
    Dec 23, 2010 at 17:02
  • I was under the impression that lsof` only works when a task actually connects to the port. Besides one would need at least a | grep portno as well to get a meaningful result.
    – Martin
    Dec 23, 2010 at 18:09

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As @vcsjones said in the comments, lsof is the tool for this:

$ sudo lsof -i tcp:80
COMMAND PID   USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
Safari  804 gordon   16u  IPv4 0x05a2cec8      0t0  TCP 192.168.6.3:50542->stackoverflow.com:http (ESTABLISHED)
httpd   874   root    3u  IPv6 0x05a2a940      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)
httpd   878   _www    3u  IPv6 0x05a2a940      0t0  TCP *:http (LISTEN)

Without the -i, it shows all open files; with just -i it shows network files only; if you specify something after the -i you can restrict by any or all of: IPv4/6, TCP/UDP, hostname or IP, and port number/service name.

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    Just in case it's useful for someone like me looking to blindly kill all processes using a given port: lsof -i tcp:5000 | grep LISTEN | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill kills all processes listening on port 5000
    – JeremyKun
    Jun 28, 2016 at 21:02

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