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I want to use inotify to monitor a folder on my home folder for a long period time.Can inotify be used this way or do i need some kind of a server for this particular purpose.

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It depends what you need to know from monitoring it, but maybe

inotifywait -m -r ~/"The Folder"

is what you want?

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Yes.I am uploading a file in the folder after very 30 minutes.Does inotify have some time limit for instance,can only run for 4 hours or does it run continually as long as the computer is running?.Do i need to start it,stop it,restart it,that kind of thing. – boot-baby-boot Mar 10 '12 at 14:46
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With the -m option, inotifywait will run indefinitely and print events as they happen. There's no time limit. – geirha Mar 10 '12 at 15:02

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