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MONITOR(1)             DragonFly General Commands Manual            MONITOR(1)

NAME
     monitor -- File and directory monitoring utility

SYNOPSIS
     monitor [-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>

DragonFly 5.5                  October 16, 2008                  DragonFly 5.5