I'm using incron to watch for events in a directory but I want to exclude some subdirectory or some filename PATTERNS.
Is there a way I can do this elegantly?
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I'm using incron to watch for events in a directory but I want to exclude some subdirectory or some filename PATTERNS.
Is there a way I can do this elegantly?
Best Answer
You can't do exclusions through
incrontab
. You can list the files explicitly, or you can make a wrapper to filter files which you do not want to process.A super-simple wrapper: