watchmedo(1)

💖 watchmedo(1) — the manual page, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, so this is watchmedo, a general commands manual page, and honestly? it's giving file-system-stalker in the best way possible. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're gonna get you fluent in this.

✨ NAME ✨

watchmedo — monitor file system events 👀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

watchmedo task [options]...
watchmedo [option]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page briefly documents the watchmedo command. (Yes, briefly. It said what it said.)

watchmedo is a program that monitors for file system events. It is run with a task specified, and that task is one of the following:

• tricks-from — Command to execute tricks from a tricks configuration file. 🎀
• tricks — A synonym for tricks-from. Same energy, shorter name, lowkey iconic.
• tricks-generate-yaml — Command to generate Yaml configuration for tricks named on the command line.
• generate-tricks-yaml — A synonym for tricks-generate-yaml. The word order said "let me switch it up."
• log — Command to log file system events to the console. It's literally just telling you what's happening, no cap. 📝
• shell-command — Command to execute shell commands in response to file system events. Something moves → something runs. Main character behaviour.
• auto-restart — Command to start a long-running subprocess and restart it on matched events. It's the friend who never lets the party die. 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Each of these has a number of options and required parameters. More details can be found by running watchmedo task -h. (Fr fr, go read that, it knows things this page doesn't.)

These programs also provide the usual GNU command line options:

• -h, --help — Show summary of options. The classic. The blueprint. 🫶
• --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. Go read it, it ate. 📚✨

okay that's the whole page, you're officially educated 💜 this was the watchmedo(1) manual, dated Nov 2021, from the General Commands Manual — bye bestie, go watch some files 🧚🌈