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All programs should tell you where they store config files
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Start your application / program with “strace” and see all the files it opens.
Also run “lsof” on a running process to see what files it has open.
Or use inotifywait from inotify-tools. It logs acces to specified file/folder.
Interesting. I have not heard of this tools. But you say specified file or folder, that means you already know the file location?
You can call it recursively on
.config
(for instance), and watch for specific events (creation, deletion, modification, etc). But I expect this to be expensive on really large folders and I'd avoid it if I could.Btw it's syscalls iirc (
inotify-tools
just exposes them)