Shell Programming and Scripting

Originally Posted by Peasant

Be careful with inotifywait
If processing inside the loop lasts long, you could miss events.

Try to create a 1000 files using touch and for loop in monitored directory and check if desired result is accomplished by your code.

If such events occur - creating a 1000 files in a short period, your program might not work correctly.
Handling such scenarios will require much more shell code.

There is also a slight problem of someone abusing your watch script by file creation, which can cause real requests will not be processed, unwanted email spam etc.

Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.