NAME

watchmedo - monitor file system events

SYNOPSIS

watchmedo task [options]...
watchmedo [option]

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.

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: