shuffle.tmp

Jean-Pierre Radley appl at jpr.com
Mon May 11 11:47:43 PDT 2015


Bill Campbell propounded (on Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:28:34AM -0700):
| On Mon, May 11, 2015, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
| >The safer practise for uncertainties such as this is to move the file
| >somewhere totally unrelated, and see if there are any adverse effects.  You
| >can always blow it away later, once you're absolutely sure.  But you'd
| >still have it if it was somehow required.
| 
| Another option on *nix systems is to use 'lsof filename' to see
| what, if anything, is using the file.

Even if lsof shows it's not in use (at the moment, that is), tomorrow
you might run a program that expects to find that mystery file.


-- 
JP


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