Top ten processes consuming file descriptors

README.md

Saving a copy of this script here for later use. I found this at the following stackoverflow post.

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21752067/counting-open-files-per-process

#!/bin/bash
cd /proc
for pid in [0-9]*
do
    echo "PID = $pid with $(ls /proc/$pid/fd/ | wc -l) file descriptors"
done | sort -rn -k5 | head | while read -r _ _ pid _ fdcount _
do
  command=$(ps -o cmd -p "$pid" -hc)
  printf "pid = %5d with %4d fds: %s\n" "$pid" "$fdcount" "$command"
done