>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200,
>> Steven <redalert.comman...@gmail.com> said:
S> Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a
S> certain application touches? More importantly, writes to. Something
S> like "filestouched vi filename" which would then report 'filename' as
S> being used.
"strace" will do what you want, but it's awkward to use if this app is
being called by something else. The easiest way might be to use a
small script as a placeholder for the application:
you% mv /path/to/app /path/to/app.bin
you% cat /path/to/app
#!/bin/sh
strace -e trace=open -o /tmp/x$$ /path/to/app.bin ${1+"$@"}
grep -v RDONLY /tmp/x$$ > /tmp/app$$
exec rm /tmp/x$$
exit 1
Running this using "vim" for the command and "stuff" for the filename
gave me this trace in /tmp/app21656:
open("/tmp/stuff.swp", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 4
open("4913", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0100644) = 3
open("stuff", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 3
open("/me/.viminfo.tmp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 5
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