What’s holding open that port on OSX

Since I always, ALWAYS forget this, here’s the command to find the process which is holding open, say, port 1900 on osx:

$ lsof -i -P | grep 1900
uTorrent  50937 sho   13u  IPv4  0xaf49b10      0t0    UDP 10.1.1.8:1900

Fucking uTorrent, why the hell is it sitting on 1900? That’s the SSDP/UPnP server-side port, ie. the router should be listening on 1900. Unless it’s planning on advertising SSDP services it can provide, it doesn’t need that port. Wonder what it’s doing.

Oh btw it only shows your processes, sudo if you wanna see ‘em all.

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