How can you find out what launches / runs something else?

In poking around with my system trying to get it to run things for all users, at some point in the past I did something which causes a script to run when ever I log in.
This script is located in the application directory, and if I put any script called Login.sh there, it runs. It runs for any user too.
I have no idea what I did to cause this and I can't figure out a way to find out who is launching it.
I looked in the loginwindow.plist files, the com.apple.loginwindow.plist files, the ttys file in /etc and in the RC files too.
Is there an easy way to find out (maybe by putting something in that login.sh script) what is running it? I know it is the 'root' user.
I thought maybe if I could search all files on my HD for the word "Login.sh" I could find the culprit. I do not know how to do that though.
Any ideas?

You look up the process in the same output and find out what the parent process is. (after crossing your fingers and hoping it's not something generic like launchd)

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