Re: which file is currently being written to disk?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/21/2011 03:59 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear all
> Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me
> NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which
> files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser
> (Opera) downloads some temporary files, and usually have a difficult
> time locating them.
>
> Any ideas? Regards

$ lsof | grep opera

However, these files get written so quickly that I'd bet it won't be 
much use except when downloading *big* file.

Alternatively, try something like:
$ du -a .opera > opera.scratch.files.`date +"%s"`.txt
<do some stuff in Opera>
$ du -a .opera > opera.scratch.files.`date +"%s"`.txt
$ diff opera.scratch.files.*.txt

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