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How to track processes that access a specific file?

I know that there is a fuser command that lists the components of the processes, but how do you constantly monitor which process accessed the file? (think of behavior similar to the tail name -f)

tell me there is a process that writes to a file and frees the descriptor at a certain interval, so it is difficult to catch this process using the fuser.

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You can monitor the execution of commands at periodic intervals. Watch also supports a difference flag to highlight differences in successive runs.

watch -n 5  'fuser file_name'
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You can use inotifywatch, assuming you are on Linux.

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inotifywatch -v -e access -e modify -t 60 filename

inotifywatch https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki

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