Is there a command that alerts when a directory/file changes?

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09-19-2005, 08:14 AM	#1
davee Member Registered: Oct 2002 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland Distribution: Suse(home) RHEL (Work) Posts: 263 Rep:	Is there a command that alerts when a directory/file changes? I seem to remember something (I think I used it in AIX) that ran in bg and popped a response when something in a file/dir changed... Any ideas? Davee

09-19-2005, 08:46 AM	#2
acid_kewpie Moderator Registered: Jun 2001 Location: UK Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos Posts: 43,417 Rep:	http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...12/16/fam.html

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