How to get linux start a script when files did changed

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i'm not that good configuring a linux server. So i hope someone can give me a hint for my problem.

I have installed trac for managing projects. It contains a plugin for doxygen. As far as i know i need to generate the doxygen output by myself. So i was thinking if it is possible to start a script when any file in a folder did changed.

Is there any way to get this done by a shell script? Or do i need to create a daemon for this?

Giovanni Toraldo · Answer 1 · 2012-09-20T19:59:04.760

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Inotify is your friend.

Check out something like:

inotify-tools: https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools
incron: http://linuxaria.com/article/incron-cron-inotify?lang=en

edited Sep 20 '12 at 19:59

answered Oct 17 '11 at 19:10

Giovanni Toraldo

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '11 at 12:57

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A Makefile and a cron job that runs make every X minutes should suffice. See info make and man 5 crontab.

answered Oct 17 '11 at 12:57

Fred Foo

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This is essentially what I do on my setup and it works great. If you'd prefer, you can use a shell script instead of `make` (that's what I do). – bta Oct 17 '11 at 17:59

How to get linux start a script when files did changed

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