On 2008-03-18, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you really want to make a snapshot of the file contents under > /proc/net onto disk, you could: > > 1) mkdir procnet > 2) cd procnet > 3) create a file called snapshot with the following contents: > #!/bin/bash > > for i in `find /proc/net -type d` ; do > mkdir -p .$i > done > > for i in `find /proc/net -type f` ; do > echo $i > cat $i > .$i > done > > 4) chmod +x snapshot > 5) ./snapshot > > And then in your procnet directory, you should see a replica tree of /proc/net > > There's probably a more elegant way of scripting this - I'm sure > scripting gurus will jump in :) Maybe something like this: $ mkdir procnet $ tar cf - /proc/net/*|(cd procnet;tar xvf -) -- John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)