need help - processes and directories

[Kevin D. Clark]

Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com> writes:

> Is there a way I can find out what processes are 'sitting' in a
> directory? For example a program that has used chdir to get to a
> particular directory?
> 
> I thought lsof would be able give me that info, but I am unable to find
> the correct option if it can.

lsof | awk "\$4 ~ \"cwd\" && \$NF ~ \"^$YOUR_DIRECTORY\$\" { print }"

Regards,

--kevin
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