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     1.4 +Ftop is to files what top is to processes. The progress of all open files and 
     1.5 +file systems can be monitored. If run as a regular user, the set of open files 
     1.6 +will be limited to those in that user's processes (which is generally all that 
     1.7 +is of interest to the user). In any case, the selection of which files to 
     1.8 +display is possible through a wide assortment of options. As with top, the 
     1.9 +items are displayed in order from most to least active.
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    1.11 +The interface extends beyond the traditional capabilities and expectations of 
    1.12 +console applications. For instance, ftop supports two output modes, full (using 
    1.13 +ncurses) and limited (simple plain text). The output mode can be specified at 
    1.14 +invocation, or changed dynamically as the program runs. Limited output mode is 
    1.15 +well suited for piping into other utilities (such as grep or sed) or simply for 
    1.16 +redirecting into a file. Full output mode is much more visually appealing and 
    1.17 +contains a few more features. Keyboard control and interaction is not limited 
    1.18 +to full output mode; it is also available in limited output mode.
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    1.20 +As another unique usability feature, the command line options for ftop exactly 
    1.21 +match the run-time keyboard commands. In other words, the '-p' command line 
    1.22 +option can be used to specify a list of processes at invocation, and while ftop 
    1.23 +is running, 'p' can be pressed to modify the list. As another example, '-h' 
    1.24 +will show the help screen when ftop starts, or 'h' can be pressed at any time 
    1.25 +afterward to show the help screen. This commonality exists for every 
    1.26 +configuration option. And the current value for all options can be viewed at a 
    1.27 +glance in the options screen.
    1.28 +
    1.29 +Finally, ftop can also be easily configured to display additional files that 
    1.30 +are not currently open by any local processes, and file system usage. If an NFS 
    1.31 +client is writing a file on a local export, that file may not be open by any 
    1.32 +local process, so the additional files feature is used to display those files. 
    1.33 +One or more file systems can be monitored if many files are being created, for 
    1.34 +instance while restoring from a backup or extracting a large archive.
    1.35 +
    1.36 +Ftop has many more features than those described here. Detailed online help 
    1.37 +describes all available functionality, and provides examples of some of the 
    1.38 +interesting ways in which ftop can be used.
    1.39 +
    1.40 +Ftop currently makes use of the entries for each process in /proc/PID/fdinfo/
    1.41 +to determine the file position and other details.