Saturday, January 17, 2026

Linux terminal tool for port process open files

 Interactive terminal-based port, process, file, and resource inspector for Linux


portwitr-interactive is a high-performance, curses-based Terminal User Interface (TUI) designed to give you instant visibility and control over your Linux system — all from a single, interactive view.

Tool for sysadmins and developers

✨ Features

🔍 Live port listing using ss

⚡ Shows CPU% / MEM% usage per process

🧠 Maps PORT → PID → PROGRAM

⛔ Firewall toggle for selected port (temporarily block/unblock traffic)

📂 Displays all open files of the selected process (/proc/<pid>/fd)

🧾 Deep inspection via witr --port

🖥️ Fully interactive terminal UI (curses)

⚡ Real-time refresh

🛑 Stop a process or systemd service directly from the UI (with confirmation)

📝 Warnings annotation (e.g., suspicious working directory is flagged but explained)


Checkout and Play: https://github.com/sunels/heimdall

Installation: https://github.com/sunels/heimdall?tab=readme-ov-file#-installation

    wget https://github.com/sunels/heimdall/releases/download/v0.1.0/heimdall_0.1.0-1_all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i heimdall_0.1.0-1_all.deb
    Run:
    sudo heimdall
    
    # or just
    heimdall














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