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Is it possible to create a trigger trigger's in Linux, that run if a software doses any changes in a particular file or folder.

Could you recommend be any tutorial that could help me in that.

Thanks

Arham Ali Qureshi
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  • FAM - the file alteration monitor and similar tools can achieve that. – 0xC0000022L Mar 08 '12 at 21:19
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    There are plenty of alternatives: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/324258/is-there-an-equivalent-to-the-net-filesystemwatcher-in-the-linux-world – ebaxt Mar 08 '12 at 21:20

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Take a look at inotify. You can use it with things like Perl's Linux::Inotify2. Or, whatever other hooks you want to put into it.

From the man page:

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inotify - monitoring file system events

Description

The inotify API provides a mechanism for monitoring file system events. Inotify can be used to monitor individual files, or to monitor directories. When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the directory itself, and for files inside the directory.

Alan W. Smith
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  • I have been looking for you inotify thing but no progress in it. I am unable to understand how to use it. Anyways Thanks for your help friend. – Arham Ali Qureshi Mar 12 '12 at 18:47