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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? I know. I'm frustrated today. I spent the weekend dealing with people nit-picking. It's hard to exaggerate...

On 04/18/2016 11:17 AM, g wrote: > lsof | grep deleted would work better. Better how? lsof hasn't always been installed by default, while /proc is pretty reliably available.

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? > ===> i did not say it was. i was only correcting Valerie's post. > I know. I'm frus...

...pm, g wrote: > > > 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? >> > ===> > > i did not say it was. i was only correcting Valerie's post...

On 04/18/2016 03:45 PM, 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? lsof will show the sizes of the deleted files. lsof | grep deleted | sort -k7n -- Bob Nichols...