lsof command in Linux

The lsof command displays a list of all currently open files, this information is helpful especially to discover, processes currently running, services being used, ports being used, users currently on the system and much more. In this article we discuss it and commonly used commands with lsof.

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In Linux everything is a file, the lsof command is used to display a list of all currently open files.

It is common t...