I have the following shell script running a inotifywait command. I want to print the output echo to the console upon every modify event.
The script:
#!/bin/sh
while inotifywait -e modify -r -m ./ --exclude '\.sh$'; do
echo test
done
When I change one file in the specified directory, i get the standard output from inotifywait:
Setting up watches. Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.
./postgres/ MODIFY postgres_test.go
./postgres/ MODIFY postgres_test.go
I have two questions:
Why is the modified event registered twice? I only updated the file once. Why is "test" not being printed to the console in which I'm running the script?
I had a similar issue. I resolved the second part by restructuring my
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