Directory process was started from ?

[Dirk Moolman]

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Sent: 04 January 2007 11:02 PM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: Directory process was started from ?

On 1/4/07, Dirk Moolman <DirkM at agilitytech.co.za> wrote:
> Hi, I have an interesting question (err, well, for me at least)
>
> Is there a way I can see which directory a process was started from ?
> Let's say I have an app, but in directory1 and also in directory2, and
I
> start the app from one of them.
>
> Is there a way to see in the process list (ps) which directory it was
> started from ?
>
>
> Dirk
>
>



>Dirk, you could try looking in the /proc filesystem.  If you find the
>process ID of the process you're interested in, you can check:
>   /proc/<pid>/cwd
>
>It should be a symlink to the current working directory of the process.


Excellent, tried this one too - works great.   My immediate thought was
to script this, to make finding the output faster.

Thank you very much

:-)


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