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submitted 1 year ago by helloworld@lemmy.ml to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Oh god please don’t do this. Constantly reading the file is just stressing your IO for no reason.

Please inotify instead:

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