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fspy(1) User Commands fspy(1)

fspy - filesystem activity monitoring tool

fspy [options] [file/dir]

a string or regular expression which will be used to filter the output. (the regex will be matched against the whole path e.g. [/etc/passwd])
its the same like -F/--filter but inverted. you can combine both. e.g. -F '.conf' -I 'wvdial.conf' will filter for files with ".conf" in its name but without "wvdial.conf" in it.
enables the recursive engine to look at a depth of NUMBER.
(HIGHLY-EXPERIMENTAL) enables the adaptive mode. e.g. if new items will be added within the path fspy will automatically add those items to the watch list.
(EXPERIMENTAL) enables the diffing feature. VALUE may be a comma separated list of: s - element size (byte) A - last access time (e.g. Mon Jul 21 21:32:31 2008) M - last modification time (e.g. Mon Jul 21 21:32:31 2008) S - last status change time (e.g. Mon Jul 21 21:32:31 2008) O - permissions (octal) U - owner (uid) G - group (gid) I - inode number D - device id
specifies the type of objects to look for. VALUE may be a comma separated list of: f - regular file d - directory s - symlink p - FIFO/pipe c - character device b - block device o - socket default is any.
specifies output format. VALUE may be a comma separated list of: f - filename p - path d - access description t - element type s - element size (byte) w - watch descriptor (inotify manpage) c - cookie (inotify manpage) m - access mask (inotify manpage | src/fsevents.h) l - len (inotify manpage) A - last access time (e.g. Mon Jul 21 21:32:31 2008) M - last modification time (e.g. Mon Jul 21 21:32:31 2008) S - last status change time (e.g. Mon Jul 21 21:32:31 2008) O - permissions (octal) U - owner (uid) G - group (gid) I - inode number D - device id T - date and time (for this event) (e.g. Tue Mar 25 09:23:16 CET 2008) e.g.: '[,T,], ,d,:,p,f' would result in: '[Mon Sep 1 12:31:25 2008] file was opened:/etc/passwd' (take a look at the README).
this short help.
version information.

fspy is Copyright 2008-2009, Richard Sammet

This manual page was written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

January 2009 fspy 0.1.0