Re: monitor rm command ?

[vitoco]

in reply to monitor rm command ?

Guessing that you don't know which files exactly are, because you are using wildcards or -rf options, you can take a snapshot of the directory tree before the rm, starting from the working directory, and compare it with another one taken when deletion is complete.

You can use standard commands from the shell like find and sort, or, of course, use perl.

[cdarke]

Might be easier, if you are on Linux, to use Linux::Inotify or Linux::Inotify2

[james2vegas]

Or something a little more cross-platform like SGI::FAM, though it might need a little TLC to make properly.