I would like to know which files in my system I access most often, as a gauge of how important they are. I know the OS records the last time the file was accessed. Is there someone way to log in a text file each time the file is accessed, possibly on an hourly or daily timescale? I suspect I could use a chron task but I am not very familiar with using it. I would prefer an OS X solution.
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Basically the same as http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6068/is-it-possible-to-find-out-what-program-or-script-created-a-given-file but that thread focuses on Linux-specific solutions. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jun 09 '16 at 23:10
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You can use inotify. See example code below.
#!/bin/sh
src_path=/directory/path/to/monitor
inotifywait --format '%:e %w%f' -e modify,delete,create \
--exclude '^.+(jpe?g|gif|ico|png|svg|pdf|pptx?|swpx|swp)$' \
-m -r "$src_path" | \
while read watched_filename EVENT_NAMES; do
case "$watched_filename" in
MODIFY)
echo "$EVENT_NAMES has been modified"
;;
CREATE)
echo "$EVENT_NAMES has been created"
;;
DELETE)
echo "$EVENT_NAMES has been deleted"
;;
*) echo "Unknown event, exiting";break
esac
done
You can modify the script to do all kinds of things like send you an SMS on a MODIFY event.
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Here is a nice post about fswatch and inotify. I am not very familiar with fswatch however I use inotifywatch all the time and it sounds like what you're looking for.
