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Old 05-14-2007, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by NVRAM View Post
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PS: On many/most Linux systems with a "/proc" filesystem, you can find open, deleted files with:
ls -l /proc/[0-9]*/fd | grep ' (deleted)$'

PPS: Presuming you have permissions, you can often access the file by that symbolic link; use 'wc' to determine the size or even copy the contents back to a disk file.
Good explanation, especially wc and deleted files related commands.
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