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I've often struggled to find and kill a process using a certain port on archlinux.  Mainly becuase most guides use netstat rather than `ss`.


Here is how I just killed the process using port 5000 using `fuser`.

``` bash
sudo fuser -k 5000/tcp
```

You can also get information about the process by running `lsof`


``` bash
❯ lsof -i :5000
COMMAND      PID   USER   FD   TYPE    DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
thoughts 1058292 waylon   11u  IPv4 119622828      0t0  TCP *:commplex-main (LISTEN)
```