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What is a “bind mount”? How do I make one? What is it good for? I've been told to use a bind mount for something, but I don't understand what it is or how to use it.
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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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Given file path, how can I determine which process creates it (and/or reads/writes to it)?
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Three files have suddenly appeared in my home directory, called "client_state.xml", "lockfile", and "time_stats_log". The last two are empty. I'm wondering how they got there. It's not the first time ...
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Is there any way in unix to find out who accessed certain file in last 1 week? It may be user or some script ftp it to some other place. Can I get a list of user name who accessed certain file? How ...
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I was wondering if there are any tools to keep track of the access history of a file. I know of stat, but as far as I understand, it only returns information about the last time the file was accessed.
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Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to find out what program or script created a given file? Can I find somewhere in logs the times of creation of hidden files or directories under the /home/...
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Is there a way to find out what is trying to mount this file? Jul 13 14:27:24 myhost automount[13527]: lookup(file): lookup for tmp_dir failed Something is looking for "tmp_dir", and I've grepped ...
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Suppose the specific process is a long-running background process A. I wanted to execute a bash script command/script hooks for process A right after process A is started, for example getting its pid ...
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The problem is that I'm not being able to keep track of all my files and I'm also tired of not telling which ones are important and which ones are a temporary file that some random programmer decided ...
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If I run a command in bash, is there any way to determine which files and directories were modified as a result of running that command? For example, if i run: export $MYDIR="/home/users/myuser/" ...
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