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Old 04-25-2011
Freeing the terminal from busy shell script?

Hi guys,

I wrote a basic inotifywait shell script on my CentOS 5.6 x86_64 test server that syncs any deleted files in a directory.

/usr/bin/script
Code:
#!/bin/sh
inotifywait -m -e delete /home/user/test | while read file; do
	# log event here
done

The script alone works fine. However, the terminal prompt is not available.
Is there a way to pipe the response to a specific location what will still allow the script to run, so the terminal is not trapped?

Thanks for your help.
 

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