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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tail-alike display of new files in directory Post 17950 by PxT on Thursday 21st of March 2002 11:57:22 AM
Old 03-21-2002
Linux provides a utility called "watch" which you could use to do this. Something like:

watch "ls -lrt | tail -5"

would give you a constantly updated list of the 5 most recently updated files. Unfortunately, I dont think this utility is included with Solaris. It is part of the procps package on Linux. You could try downloading it (http://procps.sourceforge.net/) and compiling for your architecture.
 

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inotify_rm_watch

INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)					     Linux Programmer's Manual					       INOTIFY_RM_WATCH(2)

NAME

       inotify_rm_watch - remove an existing watch from an inotify instance

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/inotify.h>

       int inotify_rm_watch(int fd, int wd);

DESCRIPTION

       inotify_rm_watch()  removes the watch associated with the watch descriptor wd from the inotify instance associated with the file descriptor
       fd.

       Removing a watch causes an IN_IGNORED event to be generated for this watch descriptor.  (See inotify(7).)

RETURN VALUE

       On success, inotify_rm_watch() returns zero.  On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the cause of the error.

ERRORS

       EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor.

       EINVAL The watch descriptor wd is not valid; or fd is not an inotify file descriptor.

VERSIONS

       Inotify was merged into the 2.6.13 Linux kernel.

CONFORMING TO

       This system call is Linux-specific.

SEE ALSO

       inotify_add_watch(2), inotify_init(2), inotify(7)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and  the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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