1PEEKFD(1) User Commands PEEKFD(1)
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6 peekfd - peek at file descriptors of running processes
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9 peekfd [-8,--eight-bit-clean] [-n,--no-headers] [-f,--follow]
10 [-d,--duplicates-removed] [-V,--version] [-h,--help] pid [fd] [fd] ...
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13 peekfd attaches to a running process and intercepts all reads and
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18 -8 Do no post-processing on the bytes being read or written.
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20 -n Do not display headers indicating the source of the bytes
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23 -c Also dump the requested file descriptor activity in any new
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26 -d Remove duplicate read/writes from the output. If you're looking
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45 An unknown error occurred while attempted to attach to a
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53 Trent Waddington ⟨trent.waddington@gmail.com⟩
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60psmisc 2012-07-28 PEEKFD(1)