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🔔 inotifywait (with polling)

Today inotify has limitaions on watch for chagnes into particular filesystem or mount point. Here is a short list

Mountend volumes from Docker containers in a Microsoft Windows host.
Mountend directories with file system SMB/NFS from GNU/Linux host.

In all of this cases you can use inotifywait-polling instead of classic inotifywait to watch for changes into the above scenarious.

Install

The most common way to install the project is from GitHub source

git clone https://github.com/javanile/inotifywait-polling.git
sudo cp ./inotifywait-polling/inotifywait-polling.sh /usr/local/bin/inotifywait-polling
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/inotifywait-polling

Usage

It works exactly like the original, so it accepts the same options, with the only difference that it checks every 5 seconds that your target has changed or not (unfortunately this is the only way around the problem in those file systems where the original does not work).

$ inotifywait-polling $HOME
Setting up watches.
Watches established.

Dockerfile

RUN curl -s https://javanile.github.io/inotifywait-polling/setup.sh | bin=inotifywait bash -

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing

$ make install

$ make tdd take=tests/HamperDatabaseTest.php

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email bianco@javanile.org instead of using the issue tracker.

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Credits

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Support us

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License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.