On 04/18/16 15:45, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 04/18/2016 01:18 PM, g wrote:
'lsof', aka, list open files, will list every open file on system, and there are a lot.
'grep deleted' will list_only_ the deleted files that are still open.
That's exactly the same thing that "ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep '(deleted)'" will do. So how is lsof better, exactly?
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i did not say it was. i was only correcting Valerie's post.
I know. I'm frustrated today. I spent the weekend dealing with people nit-picking. It's hard to exaggerate how much time and energy can be wasted by people insisting on meaningless changes.
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post was not to be nit-picking.
adding 'grep deleted' is not meaningless.
now, can we get back to op's problem?