inotify-tools is set of programs to help you monitor/watch files when they are created, modified, deleted, open for read/write, etc... and notifies you. Those tools can be very useful for admins or for developpers of bash scripts for example.

They are very easy to use and only needs a few libraries (only 2 I think!) to work.

I've packaged the new version 3.13 for Ubuntu and Debian.

Here are the links for inotify-tools 3.13 deb packages:

Important: you need to install the lib (libinotifytools0) first!

• inotify-tools_3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa0_amd64.deb (22.7 KiB)

• inotify-tools_3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa0_i386.deb (21.4 KiB)

• inotify-tools_3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa0_lpia.deb (21.1 KiB)

• libinotifytools0_3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa0_amd64.deb (17.8 KiB)

• libinotifytools0_3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa0_i386.deb (16.3 KiB)

• libinotifytools0_3.13-0ubuntu1~ppa0_lpia.deb (16.0 KiB)

You can also check out my personal archive here: https://launchpad.net/~weboide/+archive

Here's an example of output:

$ inotifywait -m -r --format ' %w %:e %f'  ~/tmp
Setting up watches.  Beware: since -r was given, this may take a while!
Watches established.
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ OPEN test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ MODIFY test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ CLOSE_WRITE:CLOSE test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ OPEN test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ MODIFY test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ CLOSE_WRITE:CLOSE test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ OPEN test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ MODIFY test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ CLOSE_WRITE:CLOSE test.txt
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ OPEN:ISDIR 
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ CLOSE_NOWRITE:CLOSE:ISDIR 
 /home/qwerty/tmp/ OPEN:ISDIR