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Author Topic: How to find out whether a file is open or not by any other application/process  (Read 3342 times)

Offline yogish

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Hi,

I have few files in a folder.Before deleting the folder i want to check whether there are any files in the folder which are opened by some application.
Is there any function which can help me in this?
i cannot use the "lsof" command.

Thanks,
Yogish.