I remember long time ago I had some antivirus on windows which had wile accesses monitor, and could tell you if any process accesses a file.I need to monitor every file in my home folder(or any other) what application does the actions.
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You should try out inotifywait, from the [inotify-tools][1] package, if you're using Linux. A command like this:
inotifywait -m -r $HOME
running in an xterm should give you an idea of what's going on. It looks like "what application does the actions" is not available, however.
If you are using Linux, this sounds like a job for fatrace (which uses the fanotify API). Here is some sample output:
sh(28980): C /bin/bash
cron(28974): CW /tmp/tmpf807Y78 (deleted)
cron(28974): C /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_unix.so
cron(28974): C /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt-2.13.so
cron(28974): C /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_deny.so
This tells us, for example, that cron did a close-write on /tmp/tmpf807Y78.
If fatrace turns out not to be adequate for your use case, you could look up alternative clients of the fanotify API.
