GVFS-MONITOR-DIR

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NAME

gvfs-monitor-dir - Monitor directories for changes

SYNOPSIS

gvfs-monitor-dir [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]

DESCRIPTION

As long as gvfs-monitor-dir is running, it will print information about file creation, deletion, file content and attribute changes and mount and unmount operations inside the specified directories.

gvfs-monitor-dir uses the GIOs directory monitoring APIs to monitor the given directories. GIO uses different implementations depending on the platform. The most common implementation Linux uses inotify.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

-h, --help

: Prints a short help text and exits.

--version

: Shows the version number and exits.

-N, --no-pair

: Don't send single MOVED events.

EXIT STATUS

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.