Find the PID of a process that uses a port on Windows

Question

My service crash on startup with the classic:

java.rmi.server.ExportException: Listen failed on port: 9999

How can I find the process for k

Answer 1

Find the PID of a process that uses a port on Windows (e.g. port: "9999")

netstat -aon | find "9999"

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.

-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.

-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.

Output:

TCP    0.0.0.0:9999       0.0.0.0:0       LISTENING       15776

Then kill the process by PID

taskkill /F /PID 15776

/F - Specifies to forcefully terminate the process(es).

Note: You may need an extra permission (run from administrator) to kill some certain processes

Answer 2

Just open a command shell and type (saying your port is 123456):

netstat -a -n -o | find "123456"

You will see everything you need.

The headers are:

 Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State           PID
 TCP    0.0.0.0:37             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       1111

Answer 3

PowerShell (Core-compatible) one-liner to ease copypaste scenarios:

netstat -aon | Select-String 8080 | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '\s+', ',' } | ConvertFrom-Csv -Header @('Empty', 'Protocol', 'AddressLocal', 'AddressForeign', 'State', 'PID') | ForEach-Object { $portProcess = Get-Process | Where-Object Id -eq $_.PID; $_ | Add-Member -NotePropertyName 'ProcessName' -NotePropertyValue $portProcess.ProcessName; Write-Output $_ } | Sort-Object ProcessName, State, Protocol, AddressLocal, AddressForeign | Select-Object  ProcessName, State, Protocol, AddressLocal, AddressForeign | Format-Table

Output:

ProcessName State     Protocol AddressLocal AddressForeign
----------- -----     -------- ------------ --------------
System      LISTENING TCP      [::]:8080    [::]:0
System      LISTENING TCP      0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0

Same code, developer-friendly:

$Port = 8080

# Get PID's listening to $Port, as PSObject
$PidsAtPortString = netstat -aon `
  | Select-String $Port
$PidsAtPort = $PidsAtPortString `
  | ForEach-Object { `
      $_ -replace '\s+', ',' `
  } `
  | ConvertFrom-Csv -Header @('Empty', 'Protocol', 'AddressLocal', 'AddressForeign', 'State', 'PID')

# Enrich port's list with ProcessName data
$ProcessesAtPort = $PidsAtPort `
  | ForEach-Object { `
    $portProcess = Get-Process `
      | Where-Object Id -eq $_.PID; `
    $_ | Add-Member -NotePropertyName 'ProcessName' -NotePropertyValue $portProcess.ProcessName; `
    Write-Output $_;
  }

# Show output
$ProcessesAtPort `
  | Sort-Object    ProcessName, State, Protocol, AddressLocal, AddressForeign `
  | Select-Object  ProcessName, State, Protocol, AddressLocal, AddressForeign `
  | Format-Table

Answer 4

Command:

netstat -aon | findstr 4723

Output:

TCP    0.0.0.0:4723           0.0.0.0:0                LISTENING       10396

Now cut the process ID, "10396", using the for command in Windows.

Command:

for /f "tokens=5" %a in ('netstat -aon ^| findstr 4723') do @echo %~nxa

Output:

10396

If you want to cut the 4th number of the value means "LISTENING" then command in Windows.

Command:

for /f "tokens=4" %a in ('netstat -aon ^| findstr 4723') do @echo %~nxa

Output:

LISTENING

Answer 5

This helps to find PID using port number.

lsof -i tcp:port_number

Answer 6

After some fiddling with a script I came to this action. Copy and save it in a .bat file:

FOR /F "usebackq tokens=5" %%i IN (`netstat -aon ^| find "3306"`) DO taskkill /F /PID %%i

Change 'find "3306"' in the port number which needs to be free. Then run the file as administrator. It will kill all the processes running on this port.