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Tales From The Command Line: What’s Going On? (lsof)

Written on August 01, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 5 people have commented

As mentioned in the previous installment, there is a very useful command buried deep within the confines of your OS X terminal. This command – lsof (LiSt Open Files) – is like the Swiss Army knife of utilities, proving information on files, directories, volumes and even what is happening on the network. Unlike iftop, lsof [...]