The /proc file system brings the processes on your Unix systems into view in some very useful ways, but only if you take the time to cd over to /proc and see all it can tell you.

The /proc file system first made its way into some Unix operating systems (such as Solaris) in the mid-1990s, promising to give users more and easier access into the kernel and to running ...

After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command and using information from the proc file system. The first solution uses the stat command to determine what type of file is ...