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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:52:51 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

> I suppose you could use inotify but I've never really got
> on very well with that.

Was there some standard command-line tool for that?

I wrote my own Python wrapper <https://gitlab.com/ldo/inotipy> and
have used that in one nontrivial example so far
<https://bitbucket.org/ldo17/serve_passwd/>, which I deployed at a
customer’s installation.