Real Time File Creation in Terminal

Drigo · 08-02-2010, 09:33 AM

I was wondering if there is a command to show a real-time creation of files. I basically executed a command that will created thousands of files and takes a long time. I want to check if it is still creating additional files or if ti got frozen.
thanks in advance!

lartman · 08-02-2010, 10:19 AM

ls | wc

smoker · 08-02-2010, 11:12 AM

What was your command ?

bsat · 08-03-2010, 09:05 AM

assuming you are using a loop to create thousands of files, probably you can just do a 'ls' after every creation.
The other options is use the -v ( verbose) option if it is available with the file creation command that you are using.