Re: automating reactions to file system changes

[David Christensen]

On 12/8/18 3:55 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 03:48:56PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
On Linux, the inotify(7) is an alternative to polling:
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify

Specifically, I have had very good success with incron.

Yes, incrond(8) and incrontab(5) look very appealing -- all you need is 
a shell script that accomplishes your goal; the C systems programming is 
taken care of for you.


David