Sloth
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Sloth overview
Sloth is a Mac application that displays all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files and sockets.
Features:
- View all open files, directories, IP sockets, devices, unix sockets and pipes
- View IP socket status, protocol and version
- Filter by access mode, volume, type, location, or using regular expressions
- Sort by name, process id, user etc.
- View sockets and pipes established between processes
- Inspection window with detailed macOS and Unix file/socket info
- Powerful contextual menu for file operations
- Authenticate to run with root privileges
Sloth is a graphical interface on top of the powerful command-line tool. The output of is parsed and shown in a searchable, filterable table view with some additional user-friendly functionality.
What’s new in version 3.2
Updated on Jan 30 2022
- Various minor bug fixes and interface refinements
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App requirements
- Intel 64
- OS X 10.9 or later
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Nov 25 2020
Version: 3.0
This is clearly for advanced users. I've just tried it and it'll probably be useful when diagnosing a faulty app, etc.
May 10 2018
Version: 2.4
MacUpdate : " Sloth is an OS X application that displays a list of all open files and sockets in use by all running applications on your system. This makes it easy to see which apps are using which files and sockets. "
What am i supposed to do with that information.
I have macOS High Sierra ( 10.13.4 ) and Sloth 2.4 produced pages and pages of information which tells me that my system is using too much cpu or what ?
Feb 20 2018
Version: 2.1
This app does not display any results on my system even after authenticating it. I run El Capitan 10.11.6. I tried several other versions, 1.6 and 1.7 and got the same results. Any ideas? I will rate it again once I get it to work.
Feb 13 2018
Version: 2.1
This is an excellent app to to understand the open files on your system, very elegant UI...
Oct 4 2017
Version: 2.0
It's a nice replacement for the now-retired WhatsOpen app.
Would be nice if the app would be codesigned, so that I can tell others to use it without effort. Having to explain to them how to Launch this around GateKeeper is a pain.
May 7 2017
Version: 1.8
Great tool like all others from Mr. Sveinbjorn Thordarson. Thanks a lot!
May 30 2009
Version: 1.4
I had some problems with the archive I downloaded for this app. First of all, BetterZip encountered an error and couldn't extract it. Second, ArchiveUtility was able to extract the archive, but the version of the app and folder extracted showed as 1.3.1. Strangely, the contents of the archive when displayed in BetterZip before extraction showed a folder numbered 1.4. I tried redownloading in case the file had become corrupt, but I had the same issue. Anyone have any suggestions?
May 30 2009
Version: 1.4
as it says above, this is a frontend for the lsof command in the terminal. this same type of thing can be done just by piping 'grep' with 'lsof' in the terminal. like this
lsof | grep iTunes
if you wanted to do the same thing without the gui.
Feb 27 2004
Version: 1.2
Very nifty utility! Though, sorting items by column doesn't seem to work.
Feb 23 2004
Version: 1.1
What a handy little utility - thank-you!
IMO, "Ferret" would have been a more appropriate name for it; though, of course, the icon...
[Example: http://www.akanimalfood.com/ferret.jpg]
...wouldn't have been any prettier! *LOL*
Feb 22 2004
Version: 1.0
Surely you could have used a much more appropriate icon display... that one is just sick... meh.
Feb 21 2004
Version: 1.0
Very nice, and useful. I just missed the hability to order the items clicking in the column title. A "search" function would be awesome! ;)
Thanks for making it free for everyone.
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