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Finding what holds a port in Linux

LinuxProcesseslsofadvanced

What this snippet does

lsof maps open files and sockets back to the process that owns them.

Expected output

COMMAND  PID   USER  NAME
node    2841 appsvc *:8080 (LISTEN)

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