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.
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