helloworld@lemmy.ml to Linux Questions@lemmy.zipEnglish · edit-216 hours agoRun a shell script whenever a file in a certain directory changes?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10file-text
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Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?
minus-squarehelloworld@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 hours 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.