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 ...

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 ...

File "/home/nh/.tmux/plugins/tmux_super_fingers/tmux_super_fingers/targets/target.py", line 32, in perform_primary_action action_class = getattr(self, 'primary_action ...

One thing I really like about Windows server compared to Mac OS X Server is the ability to quickly see what files are currently open, and who has them open.<BR><BR>I assume the only thing I can do on ...

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 ...

Today I was working on a Linux server without lsof. I'd like to know what app is using a certain file. How do I do that? I'm using Red Hat 3.4.6-3 (Linux version 2.6.9-55.ELsmp).

If you are here to list out all the open file descriptors, then you may be aware of what a file descriptor is and what the use of it is, but if you are unaware of file descriptors, then let me tell ...