/fire

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Kill it with fire 🔥

Fire is a simple bash script that allows users to kill processes by name or port number. It's a very thin wrapper, but definitely easier to remember to kill it with fire than to remember lsof -ti :8080 | awk '{print "kill -9", $1}' | xargs -L 1 sh -c

Installation

  • git clone git@github.com:evpgh/fire.git
  • cd fire
  • chmod +x fire.sh

Mac OS X shortcut

  • ln -s $(pwd)/fire.sh /usr/local/bin/fire

Usage

fire [process name] or fire [port number]

Examples

  • Open a terminal and run the following command to start a background process: sleep 300 &
  • Run fire sleep to kill the process
  • Open a terminal and run the following command to start a simple HTTP server on port 8080: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080 &
  • Run fire 8080 to kill the process