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Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago

Oh god please don’t do this. Constantly reading the file is just stressing your IO for no reason.

Please inotify instead:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait

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