On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Might be I've just asked a similar question on the ZSH mailing list. > Please have a look at inotifywatch from the sys-fs/inotify-tools > package. It can watch a directory tree recursively.
it does look interesting, thanks. I would still run into the directory limit if I wanted to watch something large like / $ sudo find / -xdev -type d | wc -l 71168 "...The default maximum is 8192; it can be increased by writing to /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches." but it's an angle to follow. I wonder how max_user_watches would handle being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> <drobbins> we should send him a commemorative gentoo crack pipe for all his contributions to this project
