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?

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[–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago*

Thanks 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.

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