MONITOR(1) BSD General Commands Manual MONITOR(1)NAMEmonitor — File and directory monitoring utility
SYNOPSISmonitor [-qvx] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The monitor utility monitors one or more files or directories and outputs
the appropriate file name to stdout whenever a change occurs. Supported
options are as follows:
-q Be more quiet. Specifying this option will cause only the file
paths to be output.
-v Be more verbose.
-x Exit after first hit. monitor will exit after reporting the
first event.
HISTORY
The monitor utility first appeared in DragonFly 2.1.
AUTHORS
Matthew Dillon ⟨dillon@backplane.com⟩
BSD October 16, 2008 BSD