[CentOS] Checking for changes
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Tue Feb 24 22:36:07 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 14:49 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Is there anything I can use to take an inventory of the filesystem
> before and after some process to see what's changed?
A simple thing I've done is to use touch to make a timestamp file just
before running the process. Then a find command check for files or
directories that have a modification time later than the timestamp file
is used. I think the parameter is "-later"? Use the man page to confirm.
WFM very well.
>
> Thanks!
> <snip sig stuff>
HTH
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Bill
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