Run a shell script whenever a file in a certain directory changes?
Run a shell script whenever a file in a certain directory changes?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35169329
Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?
inotifywait /path/to/fileExample:
inotifywait test.file; echo "test.file just changed"Then in another terminal do something like
touch test.fileThanks for your hint! After some experimentation and man page reading, this was what I was interested in:
inotifywait --event modify,create ./targetfolder/; echo "new change, that I am interested in, occurred in targetfolder";I was interested in both file modification and file creation events.