Linux – How to find out from which folder a process is running

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In *nix you can use ps to see which process are running. But if an executable has multiple homonimous files in a device, we can't figure where it was invoked from.

This is slightly different from my last question on this subject.
How can I know the absolute path of a running process?

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Try this:

ls -l /proc/<PID>/cwd

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% sudo ls -l /proc/PID/exe

eg:

% ps -auxwe | grep 24466
root     24466  0.0  0.0   1476   280 ?        S     2009   0:00 supervise sshd
% sudo ls -l /proc/24466/exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb  1 18:05 /proc/24466/exe -> /package/admin/daemontools-0.76/command/supervise

Linux – Finding out why/how a folder is being created

Mark the Desktop folder as not writeable. After 24 hours or so, grep your logs for the string "Desktop", because the process that fails to create the folder might log an error when it isn't able to.

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