Windows - find if the file is currently open ?

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

How can I tell if the file is currently open by some application ?
thanks

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[PaulTEG]

When you try to open it, you should get an error, assuming it's been exclusively locked, or you could use something like ntfilemon to see if the file is currently in use, and by which process, though you would need a command line version I'm guessing

HTH
--Paul

Paul
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[fishiface]

I don't know of a pure perl solution but both cygwin and the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (and possibly other resource kits) contain a untility called [tt]fuser[/tt], which will list the processes which currently have a given path open.

Yours,

fish

["]As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.["]
--Maurice Wilkes, 1949

 

[PaulTEG]

fuser is available on *nix, but needs to run with admin privileges see here

Paul
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[MoshiachNow]

thanks to all.

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[MoshiachNow]

1."When you try to open it, you should get an error"

Not realy,when it opens with Notepad or Word,Perl is still able to open it for read.

2.fuser - did not find a Windows version yet.

thanks

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[PaulTEG]

cygwin is probably your best bet then, as ghoti pointed out earlier

Paul
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[MoshiachNow]

thanks

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