Answer by Geoff_Clapp for List the files accessed by a program
strace -f -e open [command] 2>&1
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For my needs this is sufficient:strace [program] 2>&1 | grep 'openat'For example:$ strace sensors 2>&1 | grep 'openat'openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3...
View ArticleAnswer by spawn for List the files accessed by a program
While it might not give you enough control (yet?) I have written a program, which at least partially fulfills your needs,using the linux-kernel's fanotify and unshare to monitor only files modified (or...
View ArticleAnswer by Tomi Ollila for List the files accessed by a program
I tried that tracefile. For me it gave much less matches than my own strace ... | sed ... | sort -u. I even added -s256 to strace(1) command line but it did not help much...Then I tried that loggedfs....
View ArticleAnswer by Ole Tange for List the files accessed by a program
I gave up and coded my own tool. To quote from its docs:SYNOPSIS tracefile [-adefnu] command tracefile [-adefnu] -p pidOPTIONS -a List all files -d List only dirs -e List only existing files -f List...
View ArticleAnswer by Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' for List the files accessed by a program
You can trace the system calls with strace, but there is indeed an inevitable speed penalty. You need to run strace as root if the command runs with elevated privileges:sudo strace -f -o foo.trace su...
View ArticleAnswer by unclejamil for List the files accessed by a program
I think you want lsof (possibly piped to a grep on the program and it's children). It will tell you every file that's currently being accessed on the filesystem. For information about which files...
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time is a brilliant command if you want to figure out how much CPU time a given command takes.I am looking for something similar that can list the files being accessed by a program and its children....
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