Command for 'file in use'

[melvin mariney]

Is there a command that will tell me if a file is in use, and if so, what process is using the file.

thanks in advance.

[Thomas G. Tudrej · Accepted solution]

try "fuser", it spits out pid's of processes that hold it open. Thre is also an unsupported command "lsof", list open files that lists all open files in a dir of file system (http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/)

[Steven Sauve]

Hi,
fuser will tell you if a file is in use and who is using it. As a side note it can also tell you if a lvol is in use. Check the man page for appropriate switches, but I believe that fuser -fu (filename) should do it.

Hope this helps,
Steve