Chapter 29. lsof
Judging by the size of its man page, lsof—a cousin of ls—is one of the most complex commands available to a Linux user. But don’t worry, we’re going to keep this simple.
As a rule, I recommend that you read the man or info pages for the topic at hand. Not this time. This time I’m going to recommend that you use the -h option with lsof instead of man or info.
This is a better way to get your foot in the door with lsof. Why? Because it produces a cheat sheet like this that you can use whenever needed:
lsof -h lsof 4.74 latest revision: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub |
/tools/unix/lsof/ latest FAQ: ftp://lsof.itap.purdue.edu/pub/tools ...Get CLI for Noobies: A Primer on the Linux Command Line now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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