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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