How can I log all the events performed on a particular directory?
I want to log the entry of each directory modified within some time duration. I am using find . -type d -mmin -5 command.
In addition to this, I want to put more details, when any directory is moved to another place, I need to add the below log details, eg.,
directory "xyz" moved from "home/usr/xyz" => to "home/usr/documents/xyz"
If using Linux, you should try inotifywait command, it's designed to listen events on files or directories.
inotifywait -m -r /dir
You can use a while loop over that to filter the output.
Moreover, it's very light : no need to poll() every N seconds, that's all the magic.
inotify is Linux specific but the question is not tagged Linux. Good solutions are going to be OS specific like this one though.