"Jon" <jspeis at gmail.com> wrote in message news:1155074190.804203.173840 at b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > Perhaps using os you could work with lsof > [http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html] > > Jon > Of course! That's perfect. Thank you! How silly of me not to have noticed that "lsof" means "ListOpenFiles" ;-) Thomas Bartkus