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https://github.com/javanile/inotifywait-polling

🔔 inotifywait alternative with polling
https://github.com/javanile/inotifywait-polling

bash disk-monitoring docker file-watcher inotify inotifywait mount nfs polling smb windows

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🔔 inotifywait alternative with polling

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/javanile/inotifywait-polling
Owner: javanile
License: mit
Created: 2019-12-06T15:13:30.000Z (about 5 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2022-05-09T12:23:06.000Z (over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2023-02-27T14:51:34.861Z (almost 2 years ago)
Topics: bash, disk-monitoring, docker, file-watcher, inotify, inotifywait, mount, nfs, polling, smb, windows
Language: Shell
Homepage:
Size: 80.1 KB
Stars: 9
Watchers: 2
Forks: 2
Open Issues: 3
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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# 🔔 inotifywait (with polling)

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/javanile/inotifywait-polling.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/javanile/inotifywait-polling)
[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/javanile/inotifywait-polling/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/javanile/inotifywait-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

```shell
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).

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

### Dockerfile

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

## Changelog

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

## Testing

```bash
$ make install
```

```bash
$ make tdd take=tests/HamperDatabaseTest.php
```

## Contributing

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

## Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

## Socialware

We highly appreciate if you create a social post on Twitter by clicking the following button

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## Credits

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

- [Francesco Bianco](https://github.com/francescobianco)
- [All Contributors](https://github.com/javanile/hamper/graphs/contributors)

## Support us

Javanile is a community project agency based in Sicily, Italy.
You'll find an overview of all our projects [on our website](https://www.javanile.org).

Does your business depend on our contributions? Reach out us on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/javanile).

## License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](https://github.com/javanile/hamper/blob/main/LICENSE) for more information.