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Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?

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[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 10 points 17 hours ago

After some suggestions to check out inotifywait I ended up with a solution that works for me as desired.

inotifywait --event modify,create ./targetfolder/; echo "new change, that I am interested in, occurred in targetfolder";

It turned out I was interested in both file modification and file creation events.