How to monitor filesystem events on files and directories on Linux

Posted by linuxer on Jul 4, 2023 7:31 PM
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Inode notify (inotify) is a Linux kenel subsystem which provides APIs to to monitor filesystem events. Besides communicating with such APIs from proper programming languages, it is possible to take advantage of the exposed functionalities by using some explicitly designed command line tools such as inotifywait, which can be easily installed in all the major Linux distributions.

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