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Old 09-04-2012
I'd forgotten about that.

It's even worse than it looks -- fuser outputs to stderr and stdout. You just get the list of processes on stdout, the rest of the line appears on stderr. It flushes both streams when "appropriate" to make the output look sane.
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Old 09-04-2012
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Originally Posted by CarloM
Try
Code:
fuser -OdV /tmp 2>&1 | sort -n -t= -k 3,3

(fuser appears to output to stderr, at least on AIX 5.3)
Yes, this works perfect!
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