[CentOS] Checking for changes

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009, 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?

I frequently do something like this:

touch /tmp/copyctrl
# do update here
find / ! -type d -newer /tmp/copyctrl | sort > /tmp/changelist

Bill
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