MY ASS

May 10, 2008


PowerBook:~ thomholwerda$ sudo lsof | grep ExplainingBBLeadership.pdf
Password:
Finder 94 thomholwerda txt REG 14,2 82162 2482912 /Users/thomholwerda/.Trash/ExplainingBBLeadership.pdf

What I dont understand is why the goddamn “File in use” error dialog doesn’t tell me WHAT process is using it.

“The world’s most advanced operating system” MY ASS.

Apple & Mac, 123 |

3 Messages »

  1. You need to check out Sloth.

    http://www.sveinbjorn.org/sloth

    Comment by Adam S — May 11, 2008 @ 12:55 am

  2. Oooh slick :). Thanks!

    Comment by Administrator — May 11, 2008 @ 2:06 am

  3. Why use lsof ? fuser will do just this :

    NAME
    fuser - list process IDs of all processes that have one or more files
    open

    SYNOPSIS
    fuser [ -cfu ] file …

    Comment by Tyr — May 11, 2008 @ 7:48 am

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