Timeline for Tool to monitor folder for new files and run command whenever new file is detected
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| Aug 9, 2022 at 20:25 | history | edited | Matthias Braun | CC BY-SA 4.0 | add links, improve formatting |
| Jan 4, 2022 at 20:12 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 27, 2021 at 3:25 | comment | added | Ray Foss | I needed a bunch of other options inotifywait -me modify,create,delete /home/Mansoor/ITB/uploads. This works on Windows WSL2, ChromeOS, RHEL even Android! stackoverflow.com/questions/50168397/… | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 17:53 | comment | added | MaXi32 | i use inotify for my bash script and most of the script have awk, sed. and reading again this answer carefully, I felt regret not reading about how to implement that 'built-in' variables path, action, file instead of using grep, etc.. thanks a lot for this answer | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 15:50 | comment | added | user425161 | this not work if the director is end Point of FTP point mount. | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 18:04 | comment | added | Bob | For CentOS: yum --enablerepo=epel -y install inotify-tools | |
| S Mar 9, 2020 at 5:01 | history | suggested | Dario Seidl | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Don't change the path variable which changes the PATH in zsh |
| Mar 8, 2020 at 23:24 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 11:14 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Jan 21, 2020 at 13:36 | |||||
| Aug 4, 2018 at 13:38 | comment | added | Tim | @Wender inotfiywait outputs 3 pieces of information on a single line when triggered. The 'read' bash builtin reads the input line and assigns each of the three pieces of information to a variable. Thus the first piece is assigned to the variable path, the second to action, and the third to file. Having assigned values to those variables, they are then available to be used later (like on the echo line). More information: tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_08_02.html | |
| May 18, 2018 at 1:35 | comment | added | Wender | can you explain me the "while" line? Where did "path", "action" and "file" come from? | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 13:22 | comment | added | user100278 | Now there is also a portable tool for it called fswatch. I did not write it, but it's open source and I use it. | |
| S Jul 24, 2014 at 14:03 | history | edited | Drav Sloan | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Corrected "move_to" to "moved_to" (no need for "EDIT" text in post, as the changes are stored anyway and can be viewed via history) |
| S Jul 24, 2014 at 14:03 | history | suggested | Luke Cousins | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Corrected "move_to" to "moved_to" |
| Jul 24, 2014 at 13:50 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Jul 24, 2014 at 14:03 | |||||
| S Apr 17, 2014 at 6:59 | history | suggested | Bruno Bronosky | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Two simplifications and an improvement: Used the builtin event filter. Used multiple `read` arguments to isolate the filename. Included move_to as an event filter because files have 2 ways of getting into a folder. |
| Apr 17, 2014 at 6:45 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Apr 17, 2014 at 6:59 | |||||
| Nov 19, 2011 at 20:38 | vote | accept | norq | ||
| Nov 19, 2011 at 16:43 | history | edited | enzotib | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 10 characters in body |
| Nov 19, 2011 at 16:35 | history | answered | enzotib | CC BY-SA 3.0 |