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Well, the simple explanation is probably that the author isn't aware of `lsof` and might even learn something from your comment. lsof isn't something you autom

Well, the simple explanation is probably that the author isn't aware of `lsof` and might even learn something from your comment. lsof isn't something you automatically pickup if it's not your daily business (like so many other things). I for myself often forget about it but I have some usual ports to kill. So these days I simply search my shell history by port to find lsof again.

nsteel 3y ago
True, but there's no shortage of Stack Overflow answers: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kill%20process%20on%20port https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kill%20process%20on%20...
sumedh 3y ago
> lsof isn't something you automatically pickup if it's not your daily business Its a good thing now we have chatGpt to help us :)
djha-skin 3y ago
I've known about LSOF and about kill but I've never put them together like this. I find his tool compelling simply because now I don't have to remember all this stuff. What we really need is a tool like this for Windows. Find the process that keeps this file open and kill it. It's so annoying when I can't delete a file because some process has it open but I can't tell which one.
- darrenf 3y ago
  `handle` from sysinternals gets you some of the way there. Maybe all of the way there? (I haven't used Windows in over a decade) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/handle https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/han...
- panki27 3y ago
  Powertoys for Windows has added a "What is blocking this file?" feature recently. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-locksmith https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-loc...
  - Karunamon 3y ago
    Useful, but talk about too little too late! The fact that this is an external tool, not part of the operating system, and that you are expected to, in 2023, blindly guess which application is holding your flash drive or documents open is pretty pathetic.
- lelanthran 3y ago
  > What we really need is a tool like this for Windows. Nevermind Windows, I want an app like this for android.
myself248 3y ago
I keep finding uses for more of the ls family: knew lsusb and lspci for ages, lsof is handy, and most recently I learned lsblk which is always worth using before dd'ing an image onto a disk, etc. Back in the DOS era, there were few enough files on the system that I could just explore around and learn what everything did. That's no longer practical, but what's the alternative? There doesn't seem to be a "top 100 commands to get familiar with", or whatever. The ss64.com pages are pretty great, but...
- viraptor 3y ago
  ls /usr/bin Choose a random entry you don't recognise and open the man page for it. There's not that many on most systems - I mean, there's likely a couple hundred or more, but some are convenience symlinks and many you'll already know. For things you may not have by default, there's a few "awesome" lists available, like https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
  - avgcorrection 3y ago
    Hmm, tried that but that directory seems to contain ~3000 files on my old Ubuntu.
    - myself248 3y ago
      1621 on Pop, which is still about 15x more than I can reasonably remember. Hence the whole problem, it's not digestable unless you make digesting it your whole hobby. Ah well. Thanks for confirming, I guess.

nsteel 3y ago

True, but there's no shortage of Stack Overflow answers: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kill%20process%20on%20port https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kill%20process%20on%20...

sumedh 3y ago

> lsof isn't something you automatically pickup if it's not your daily business Its a good thing now we have chatGpt to help us :)

djha-skin 3y ago

I've known about LSOF and about kill but I've never put them together like this. I find his tool compelling simply because now I don't have to remember all this stuff. What we really need is a tool like this for Windows. Find the process that keeps this file open and kill it. It's so annoying when I can't delete a file because some process has it open but I can't tell which one.

darrenf 3y ago
`handle` from sysinternals gets you some of the way there. Maybe all of the way there? (I haven't used Windows in over a decade) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/handle https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/han...
panki27 3y ago
Powertoys for Windows has added a "What is blocking this file?" feature recently. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-locksmith https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-loc...
- Karunamon 3y ago
  Useful, but talk about too little too late! The fact that this is an external tool, not part of the operating system, and that you are expected to, in 2023, blindly guess which application is holding your flash drive or documents open is pretty pathetic.
lelanthran 3y ago
> What we really need is a tool like this for Windows. Nevermind Windows, I want an app like this for android.

myself248 3y ago

I keep finding uses for more of the ls family: knew lsusb and lspci for ages, lsof is handy, and most recently I learned lsblk which is always worth using before dd'ing an image onto a disk, etc. Back in the DOS era, there were few enough files on the system that I could just explore around and learn what everything did. That's no longer practical, but what's the alternative? There doesn't seem to be a "top 100 commands to get familiar with", or whatever. The ss64.com pages are pretty great, but...

viraptor 3y ago
ls /usr/bin Choose a random entry you don't recognise and open the man page for it. There's not that many on most systems - I mean, there's likely a couple hundred or more, but some are convenience symlinks and many you'll already know. For things you may not have by default, there's a few "awesome" lists available, like https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
- avgcorrection 3y ago
  Hmm, tried that but that directory seems to contain ~3000 files on my old Ubuntu.
  - myself248 3y ago
    1621 on Pop, which is still about 15x more than I can reasonably remember. Hence the whole problem, it's not digestable unless you make digesting it your whole hobby. Ah well. Thanks for confirming, I guess.