Often you're interested in knowing who is using a specific file. You know the path to it and you want lsof to tell you the processes that have open references to it. Simple -- execute lsof and give it ...

Use the LiSt Open Files (LSOF) utility to track data flow related to ports, users, and applications. LiSt Open Files (LSOF) is a Linux utility that allows you to view current network connections and ...

Click for a PDF containing this and four other essential Linux articles. Both of the aliases below will list whatever files are open on your behalf when you are logged in. I suspect that few sysadmins ...

Lsof has a rich set of options for selecting the files to be displayed. These include: -a tells lsof to AND the set of selection options that are specified. Normally lsof ORs them. For example, if you ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...