Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 16:34 UTC, submitted by LinucksGirl
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2006-03-24
Just to be a pedant, it doesn't do the same thing, it does something markedly different, however it does often produce the same result.
Actually the results can be very different, take for example the case of "lsof +D /bin/" which will find any open files under /bin and "lsof |grep /bin/" which will find any files with /bin/ in their path e.g. files in /usr/bin as well as files in in /bin.