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I am using this command to watch a directory:

inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete --exclude ".*(.(git|idea)|(.*(___jb_tmp___|___jb_old___)))" my-dir

However, it does not work like I intend. What I want is that it does only NOT fire if every file that was changed is excluded. If there is at least one file that is NOT excluded and changes, then I want inotifywait to "fire".

My overall plan is to push code to a remove server whenever a python file or something else that is relevant is changed. I do not want to push code when only meta files from my IDE (PyCharm) or git files are changed.

Is there a way to do this?

Right now inotifywait does not fire when I change a python file in PyCharm since there are some files changed that end with _jb_tmp_. However, if I change a python file by hand, it works (e.g. in nano or vim).

As stated in the comments to my question, I found that the problem was not caused by inotifywait but by PyCharm. It turned out that PyCharm has an option called "safe write" that tells the IDE to write changes to temporary files first and if this succeeds, it deletes the original file and renames the tempory file to the original file name.

This is why inotifywait only sees events like these:

$ inotifywait -r -m -e modify,create,delete my-dir



my-dir/ CREATE main.py___jb_tmp___ 

my-dir/ MODIFY main.py___jb_tmp___ 

my-dir/ DELETE main.py___jb_old___ 

my-dir/.idea/ CREATE workspace.xml___jb_tmp___ 

my-dir/.idea/ MODIFY workspace.xml___jb_tmp___ 

my-dir/.idea/ DELETE workspace.xml___jb_old___ 

my-dir/.git/ CREATE index.lock 

my-dir/.git/ DELETE index.lock

So I disabled safe write in PyCharm and now use this command:

inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete --exclude ".*(.git|.idea)" my-dir

This is doing exactly what I want. The events I see from inotifywait are like this:

my-dir/ MODIFY main.py