🤗lemmyverseultrahug@lemmy.ml to Linux Questions@lemmy.zipEnglish · edit-22 months agoRun a shell script whenever a file in a certain directory changes?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up111arrow-down1message-squareRun a shell script whenever a file in a certain directory changes?🤗lemmyverseultrahug@lemmy.ml to Linux Questions@lemmy.zipEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?
minus-square🤗lemmyverseultrahug@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoAfter some suggestions to check out inotifywait I ended up with a solution that works for me as desired. inotifywait --event modify,create ./targetfolder/; echo "new change, that I am interested in, occurred in targetfolder"; It turned out I was interested in both file modification and file creation events.
After some suggestions to check out inotifywait I ended up with a solution that works for me as desired.
inotifywait --event modify,create ./targetfolder/; echo "new change, that I am interested in, occurred in targetfolder";It turned out I was interested in both file modification and file creation events.