Monitor directory content change

Question

I\'m writing a bash script, and I\'d like to monitor file changes into a directory (adding, deleting and renaming) and performing different action accordingly.

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Answer 1

Just an idea. If you are allowed to do it only in bash, then you can generate a md5sum on directory contents. Probably you can have file-name,modify-time,inode-modify-time etc in that directory.

Answer 2

You can use the inotifywait command (assuming your distribution supports inotify, which most do):

inotifywait -m -r --format '%f' -e modify -e move -e create -e delete ~/test | while read line
do
    echo "File: $line"
done