monitor open process files on linux (real-time)

Solution 1:

Try the watch command:

watch -n 10 ls -l /proc/$$/fd

Watch is nice.

You could use an old school while loop:

while :
do
 ls -l /proc/$$/fd
 sleep 10
done

watch is in the procps package on debian based systems and the procps rpm on RedHat derived systems.

Solution 2:

If you want to see each file as it is being opened, you can filter that with strace. For example:

strace -p _pid_of_app_ -e trace=open,close

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Solution 3:

You could combine lsofand watch.

For example watch "lsof -p 1234" will give you a list of all open files of pid 1234 every 2 seconds. You could change some parameters to meet your needs.