watchmedo(1)

Usage

watchmedo task [options] ...

watchmedo [option]

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.

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:

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).