NAME

       watchmedo - monitor file system events

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       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:

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       --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.

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