diff --git a/pages/common/lsof.md b/pages/common/lsof.md
index c200bf37b..22df47bb6 100644
--- a/pages/common/lsof.md
+++ b/pages/common/lsof.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 - only output the process PID (e.g. to pipe into kill)
 
-`lsof -t {{/path/to/file}} | xargs kill -9`
+`lsof -t {{/path/to/file}}`
 
 - list files opened by user