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File Monitor

04.05.2007
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        I was constantly needing to see real time file stats so I wrote this little script to help me out...

Usage:
filemon FILE

FILE is the file you want to monitor.


#!/bin/bash

# File Monitor  btodd3
#
# 3/14/07	Initial Version

function list () {
ls -l
sleep 1
}

while true; do
list | grep $1
done

Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2007/04/05 - 4:17pm

cool!

Snippets Manager replied on Sat, 2007/04/07 - 12:13am

watch -n 1 "ls -l"
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