Using inotify in a script to monitor a directory
bash, echo, inotifywait, linux, monitoring
Solution
It turns out all I had to do was pipe the command into a while loop:
!/bin/sh
inotifywait -mqr -e close_write "/root/secondfolder/" | while read line
do
echo "close_write"
done
Problem
I have written a bash script to monitor a particular directory "/root/secondfolder/" the script is as follows: ``` #!/bin/sh while inotifywait -mr -e close_write "/root/secondfolder/" do echo "close_write" done ``` When I create a file called "fourth.txt" in "/root/secondfolder/" and write stuff to it, save and close it, it outputs the following but it does not echo "close_write": ``` /root/secondfolder/ CLOSE_WRITE,CLOSE fourth.txt ``` can someone point me in the right direction?