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Can a bash script be hooked to a file?

I want a script to sleep unless a certain file is modifed/deleted (or a file created in a certain directory, or ...). Can this be achieved in some elegant way? The simplest thing that comes to my mind ...
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What is a Superblock, Inode, Dentry and a File?

From the article Anatomy of Linux File Systems by Tim Jones, I read that Linux views all the file systems from the perspective of a common set of objects and these objects are superblock, inode, ...
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timestamp, modification time, and created time of a file

I just know that ls -t, -f give different sorting of files and subdirectories under a directory. Now I wonder what are the differences between timestamp, modification time, and created time of a ...
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How to create a file even root user can't delete it

How to create a file even root user can't delete it ?
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1answer
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Who creates /etc/{group,gshadow,passwd,shadow}-?

In any linux system I have access to (a couple of Archlinuxes, an Ubuntu, a Debian Sid and a Gentoo) there are the following 4 files in /etc/, all ending with a dash: /etc/group- /etc/gshadow- ...
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1answer
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How does the Linux file structure work?

I see the different folders bin, dev, mnt, proc, srv, sys, etc. What are the properties of all these different folders? What are there purposes? Are there files in some of them that I should not ...
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3answers
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Linux file access monitoring

Is there any way in unix to find out who accessed certain file in last 1 week? It may be user or some script ftp it to some other place. Can I get a list of user name who accessed certain file? How ...
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How can I edit multiple files in VIM?

I know I can open multiple files with vim by doing something like vim 2011-12*.log, but how can I switch between files and close the files one at a time? Also, how can I tell the file name of the ...
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Linux ls to show only filename date and size

How can I use ls in linux to get a listing of filenames date and size only. I don't need to see the other info such as owner or permission. Is this possible?
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single bind mounted file gets out of sync in linux

I am bind mounting a single file on top of another one and after making changes with an editor, I don't see the modifications in both files. However, if I make the changes with the shell using ...
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2answers
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How to find out which file is currently written by a process

My situation is that from time to time a specific process (in this case, it's Thunderbird) doesn't react to user input for a minute or so. I found out using iotop that during this time, it writes ...
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How to know recently updated files

If I run iostat -x 1 I saw ocassionally large 5MB to 10MB writes. What files are being written? I want to check the recently created files with size over 5MB for example. How would I do so?
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file command + how to view all results from file command

I use the file command in order to verify if file (PATH) is text/ascii file or encrypted file Because file command have allot of results ( small example in example 1 ) I want to get the all ...
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How to write a file at various offsets to a filesystem partition with dd command

Requirement I want to write a file at various offsets into the partition Partition /dev/part2 is mounted at /mypart I tried the command below: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mypart/aaa bs=1024 seek=0 ...