inotify-tools
inotify-tools
inotify-tools is a C library and a set of command-line programs for Linux providing a simple interface to inotify. These programs can be used to monitor and act upon filesystem events. A more detailed description of the programs is further down the page. The programs are written in C and have no dependencies other than a Linux kernel supporting inotify.
inotify-tools 3.13 is the latest version, released on the 1st of January 2008.
Quick links: mailing list, download, Sourceforge project page, e-mail author, e-mail maintainer, libinotifytools API docs.
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Getting inotify-tools
You can download inotify-tools and compile and install it the usual way.
Thanks to the hard work of a few people, some lucky users can also obtain inotify-tools through their distribution's package manager. If your distribution is listed here but does not have the most up-to-date version, you can try pestering the listed package maintainer. If your distribution is not listed here but it does provide inotify-tools, let me know!
Fedora
inotify-tools is available through the Fedora Extras repository. Just do:
yum install inotify-tools
Adel Gadllah is the Fedora package maintainer.
Gentoo
inotify-tools is available in Gentoo's official portage tree. It may be masked, in which case read the "MASKED PACKAGES" section of the man page for emerge, then unmask it. Then you can simply:
emerge inotify-tools
Wolfram Schlich is the Gentoo package maintainer.
Debian/Ubuntu
inotify-tools is available in Debian's official repositories. You can install it by:
apt-get install inotify-tools
Ryan Niebur is the Debian package maintainer.
ALT Linux
inotify-tools is available in the Sisyphus repository. With ALT Linux Sisyphus you can install by the following command:
apt-get install inotify-tools
Igor Zubkov is the ALT Linux Sisyphus package maintainer.
Frugalware Linux
inotify-tools is available in Frugalware Linux. It can be installed with the following command:
pacman-g2 -S inotify-tools
Priyank Gosalia is the Frugalware Linux package maintainer.
Everyone Else
Download inotify-tools source, then compile and install:
./configure --prefix=/usr amp; amp; make amp; amp; su -c 'make install'
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1 January 2008: inotify-tools 3.13 released. Changes:
Fix: `--timefmt' option to inotifywait doesn't work (broken in 3.12)
24 November 2007: inotify-tools 3.12 released. Changes:
Fix: inability to free memory allocated by inotifytools, and bogus memory
leak check (causing `make check' to fail on some systems).