watchmedo

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Nov 2021
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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 Debian systems as /usr/share/doc/python3-watchdog/README.rst.gz.


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO

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