Lsof
by Vic Abell, abe (at) purdue (dot) edu [email concealed]
Platforms: AIX, BSDI, Digital UNIX/Alpha, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix
Categories: Auditing, File Integrity, Host, System, Utilities
Version: v4.56
URL: ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/
Lsof is a Unix-specific diagnostic tool. Its name stands for LiSt Open Files, and it does just that. It lists information about any files that are open by processes currently running on the system.