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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Monitor your changed files in real-time in Linux ..........


Everybody knows top or htop. Ever wished there was something similar but to monitor your files instead of CPU usage and processes? Well, there is.


Run this:
watch -d -n 2 ‘df; ls -FlAt;’


and you’ll get to spy on which files are getting written on your system. Every time a file gets modified it will get highlighted for a second or so. The above command is useful when you grant someone SSH access to your box and wish to know exactly what they’re modifying

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