Utilities function to find and kill a process on a port easily

Bash_Port_Utilities

# Implemented and tested on MacOS
# Add utilties to ~./bash_profile to make them usable in your terminal

# ------------------- PORT UTILTIES ----------------------
# Find PID of process on a specific port
# param portNumber
# example: "findPortProcess 8080"
findPortProcess() {
    portProcess="$(lsof -n -i4TCP:$1 | grep LISTEN)"
    if [ "$portProcess" ]
    then
        echo $portProcess
    else
        echo "No Process on Port:$1"
    fi
}

# Kills Process on a Port
# param portNumber
# example: "killPort 8080"
killPort() {
    processPID="$(lsof -ti tcp:$1)"
    if [ "$processPID" ]
    then
        kill $processPID
        echo "Killed Process on Port:$1"
    else
        echo "No Process on Port:$1"
    fi

}