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8 Sep, 2005

list of files that applications use

Posted by pwestbro 22:00 | Permalink Permalink | Comments Comments (0) | Trackback Trackbacks (0) | Computer

I was interested in getting a list of files that a Mac OS X application attempted to access.  One of my friends gave me the hint that I could use the fs_usage command line tool.  I was able to get this to work, with these commands 

sudo fs_usage |grep appName

I run this command before launching the application, and then you can get a complete list of the files.

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