See what files an app tries to open (and where)

[probono]

Hi all,

do you want to see what files an app tries to open? E. g. you want to know where it looks for libraries and configuration files? Then call the app from a konsole with

strace -f -e open /path/and/name/of/the/app.sh

Konsole then shows all files as they are tried to open. So you can easily see what actually gets accessed when.

Btw, you can get the path of the app with

 which nameoftheapp

probono