[[http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/|inotify-tools]] is a set of UNIX utilities to work with Linux's inotify framework. Some of my interesting recipes:

{{{#!highlight sh
# Print full path; pipe to sh that calls rsync
inotifywait -mrq --format '%w%f' --exclude '.*\.swp.*' -e close_write -e delete -e create directory-to-watch \
while read file; do
	echo "rs ${file} caligula:remote/"
done
}}}

{{{#!highlight sh
# Print parent directory only
inotifywait -mrq --format '%w' --exclude '.*\.swp.*' -e close_write -e delete -e create directory-to-watch
}}}
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