A temporary reference (typically a number) assigned by the operating system to a file that an application has asked it to open. The handle is used throughout the session to access the file. In the ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

Yeah...<BR>so I am having some troubles finding the process that's taking up all those file handles. The setup is complex, lots of processes calling each other etc ...