Re: [PLUG] fswatch, etc

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:40 AM jeffv via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> fswatch – Monitors Files and Directory Changes or Modifications in Linux
>
> https://www.tecmint.com/fswatch-monitors-files-and-directory-changes-modifications-in-linux/

This is of course a more platform-agnostic solution, but if you're on
linux+systemd you can use path units to trigger something like
starting a service anytime a file path changes.

man systemd.path

It uses inotify which I imagine is how fswatch also works.

-- 
Rich
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