inotify -watch for file to change

2014-01-28 1 min read Learning Linux

Here is a simple command for you. It uses inotify tools. So first you need to install :

sudo yum install inotify-tools

and then you can try something like this:

while true; 
do 
inotifywait -r -e modify --exclude=".swp" . && make; 
done

Here, once the file changes, we are running make, but you can do anything you want.

 

 

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