Lsof equivalent command windows

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Bryce Schober Bryce Schober 21 2 2 bronze badges. This should do the trick. Parthian Shot Parthian Shot 4 4 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Kevdog 3, 18 18 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 61 61 bronze badges.

Clement Clement 29 4 4 bronze badges. The OP said that lsof was not installed and asked for alternatives The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science.

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Try Unlocker. Greg Mattes Greg Mattes Unlocker only lists locked files, not opened files. Most Windows software locks the DLL it uses but not your documents. Sean Sean I come here looking for a way to find out who's preventing me from deleting a folder and avoid a restart, and I find the command I need requires a config setup that How very very windows.

Matt Hamilton Matt Hamilton k 60 60 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Note that this only shows shared files that are open by other network users. It doesn't help find files that are open on the local system. Doing this on the server would probably tell you which user had the file open, but not which program on that user's machine.

Process Explorer as mentioned by JayHofacker worked well for me. Eg handle -p I like this approach because you are using utilities from Microsoft itself. M8R-qpgep8 M8R-qpgep8 21 1 1 bronze badge. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Share this: Twitter Facebook Reddit. Like this: Like Loading I also love lsof for linux and I am looking something similar in windows.

Leave a Reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. Jon's Blog. I would like to know which file is open in Windows from command line. In linux we have command lsof for that purpose. Is there any command in Windows like that? If you want a command line tool, the Handle utility from SysInternals does this.

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