Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

The previous script will log create, move, and delete events in the given path. The -m option causes watch to stay active and monitor changes continuously, rather than exiting after an event happens. The -r option enables a recursive watch of the directories (symbolic links are ignored). The -e option specifies the list of events to be watched and -q reduces the verbose messages and prints only the required ones. This output can be redirected to a log file.

The events that inotifywait can check include the following:

Event	Description
access	When a read happens to a file
modify	When file contents are modified
attrib	When metadata is changed
move	When a file undergoes a move operation
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