Cool app, is this essentially a visual representation of the ‘lsof’ command?

techwizrd · on Feb 17, 2023

I believe you're correct according to the linked Github repo:

> Sloth is essentially a friendly, exploratory graphical user interface built on top of the lsof command line tool. The output of lsof is parsed and shown in a sortable, searchable outline view with all sorts of convenient additional functionality.

bdcravens · on Feb 17, 2023

Name probably comes from rearranging the letters (slof)

wellthisisgreat · on Feb 17, 2023

They should have rolled with “Slof” and use the “f” as a phonetic writing of “th”

1vuio0pswjnm7 · on Feb 17, 2023

BSD userland has fstat. Arguably no need for lsof but I guess some people might prefer lsof.

karaterobot · on Feb 17, 2023

> Nice GUI for lsof.

Yep!

antegamisou · on Feb 17, 2023

This was my exact thought too. How is it any different from it?

dopidopHN · on Feb 17, 2023

It’s says on their page it’s a GUI for lsof.

aa-jv · on Feb 17, 2023

There should be more GUI's for the command line tools, imho. Imagine if we could get a parsable json from the cmd line tools that allows for a standard UI to be built ..

black3r · on Feb 17, 2023

There's a cli/python utility called jc, which can parse some cmd line tool outputs (including lsof) and convert them to JSON (can also convert many file formats to JSON..)

https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/