Kill command to ensure appium is not running

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Hi,
So I think sometimes appium is not gracefully closing on execution when i am running on my build server.
I was wondering if there is a simple command to ensure that no instance of appium is running in the background hogging the port?
At the moment i have a command to kill my simulator:

killall -9 “iPhone Simulator” &> /dev/null || true
killall -9 instruments &> /dev/null || true

Which makes sure the simulator is not running, what would be the command to do the same to appium?

Thanks

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normally you can use many appium instances. and your way kills ALL of them.

mine way:

cmd = new String{“sh”, “-c”, “lsof -P | grep ':” + USED_APPIUM_PORT + “’ | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs kill -9”};
executeShell(cmd);