Easily list open files and their owners

Mar 01, '04 10:04:00AM

Contributed by: sveinbjorn

In a followup to this hint on 'lsof', I'd like to mention a free, open-source Cocoa GUI wrapper I did for lsof called Sloth, which presents a list of open files on your system along with the owning process. It has "Reveal In Finder" and "Kill" buttons to make it easier to get around annoying messages such as these:

The operation cannot be completed because the item [whatever] is in use
With Sloth, you can easily find the owning process in question and kill it. Of course Sloth doesn't support all the fancy advanced options which can be passed to lsof, but it's just fine for most functionality.

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