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inotify watch a directory with timestamps
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| inotifywait --monitor --timefmt '%F %T' --format '%T %w%f %e' --recursive $1 |
use & to run it on background
inotifywait -m /dir &
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The problem is that after more than 1 hour, inotifywait won't monitor that directory anymore, I have checked with the command ps -ef | grep inotifywait and can't see it running. How do I keep the service running until I turn it off?