Re: An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 April 2015 12:34:11 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 12:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > > Thanks for any clues. The bash manual, at around 500 pages, details > > aren't that easy to find in that tome. > > Bash (or sh) is really a programming language :

Re: An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 12:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I am as you have proably guessed by now, the originator of some bash > scripts that greatly simplify the day to day background operations. > > Two of these "scripts" make use of inotifywait to hand them the data th

An inotifywait question

2015-04-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I am as you have proably guessed by now, the originator of some bash scripts that greatly simplify the day to day background operations. Two of these "scripts" make use of inotifywait to hand them the data they need to do the rest of their jobs. One of them watches /var/spool/m