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I'm using inotifywait to watch for new files. I would like to ignore new directories though. I can't seem to get anything to work.

Here is what I'm using:

#!/bin/sh
MONITORDIR1="/hdd_1/path/to/dir"
MONITORDIR2="/hdd_1/path/to/dir"
#MONITORDIR3="/hdd_1/path/to/dir"
#MONITORDIR4="/hdd_1/path/to/dir"

monitor() {
inotifywait -m -r -e create --exclude '/\..+' --format "%f" "$1" | while read NEWFILE
do
        echo "This is an automated email." | mail -s "${NEWFILE} has been added to Daemon!" "user@domain.com"
done
}
monitor "$MONITORDIR1" &
monitor "$MONITORDIR2" &
#monitor "$MONITORDIR3" &
#monitor "$MONITORDIR4" &
David Custer
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1 Answers1

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That's easy. Remove recurse flag -r and list existing directories with find.

monitor() {
  dirs=$(find "$1" -type d)
  inotifywait -m -e create --exclude... --format... $dirs |while ...
}
temoto
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