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I believe you're correct according to the linked Github repo:

> Sloth is essentially a friendly, exploratory graphical user interface built on top of the lsof command line tool. The output of lsof is parsed and shown in a sortable, searchable outline view with all sorts of convenient additional functionality.

Name probably comes from rearranging the letters (slof)

They should have rolled with “Slof” and use the “f” as a phonetic writing of “th”

BSD userland has fstat. Arguably no need for lsof but I guess some people might prefer lsof.

> Nice GUI for lsof.

Yep!

This was my exact thought too. How is it any different from it?

It’s says on their page it’s a GUI for lsof.

There should be more GUI's for the command line tools, imho. Imagine if we could get a parsable json from the cmd line tools that allows for a standard UI to be built ..

There's a cli/python utility called jc, which can parse some cmd line tool outputs (including lsof) and convert them to JSON (can also convert many file formats to JSON..)

https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/