watchmedo(1) General Commands Manual watchmedo(1)
NAME
watchmedo - monitor file system events
SYNOPSIS
watchmedo task [options]...
watchmedo [option]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the watchmedo command.
watchmedo is a program that monitors for file system events. It is run
with a task specified, which is one of the following:
tricks-from
Command to execute tricks from a tricks configuration file.
tricks A synonym for tricks-from.
tricks-generate-yaml
Command to generate Yaml configuration for tricks named on the
command line.
generate-tricks-yaml
A synonym for tricks-generate-yaml.
log Command to log file system events to the console.
shell-command
Command to execute shell commands in response to file system
events.
auto-restart
Command to start a long-running subprocess and restart it on
matched events.
OPTIONS
Each of these has a number of options and required parameters. More
details can be found by running watchmedo task -h.
These programs also provide the usual GNU command line options:
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
--version
Show version of program.
SEE ALSO
watchdog(3).
There is a little more information in the README file, available on De-
bian systems as /usr/share/doc/python3-watchdog/README.rst.gz.
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