NAME
watchmedo - monitor file system events
SYNOPSIS
watchmedo task [options]...
watchmedo [option]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
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:
- -h, --help
-
Show summary of options.
- --version
-
Show version of program.
SEE ALSO
watchdog(3).
There is a little more information in the README file, available on Debian systems as /usr/share/doc/python3-watchdog/README.rst.gz.