[CentOS] Checking for changes

Tue Feb 24 22:36:07 UTC 2009
William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>

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