jkfran/killport

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

killport is a Rust command-line tool that kills processes and containers listening on specified ports. It supports multiple container runtimes (Docker, Podman, OrbStack, Colima), configurable signals, dry-run mode, and shell completions.

Use cases

• kill the process using port 8080
• free up a port that's already in use
• stop a docker container bound to a port
• find and terminate whatever is listening on a port
• kill processes on multiple ports at once
• preview what would be killed before terminating

When to choose

• you frequently hit 'address already in use' errors during development
• you need to kill both native processes and containers by port
• you want a fast, cross-platform CLI with dry-run and signal control

When to avoid

• you need general process management beyond port-based lookup
• you prefer GUI tools or need port monitoring/alerting rather than one-shot kills

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli developer-tools networking developer-tools networking windows cli kill-process port-management docker containers rust process-management command-line linux macos

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