Is there anything about the nature of inotify’s inotifywait that would result in unpredictable behavior (or predictable problems) when running two or more scripts that each uses inotifywait to watch the same file or set of files? Or is it safe/ok, technically, to have multiple scripts using inotifywait on the same files? Answer Yes, it is safe. inotify is a
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output mountpoint on (usb)device detection
I want to create a bash script that will output the mount point from an inserted USB device. I have two commands (between “do” “and” done”) that work separately but not together in a bash script. The script looks for a UUID file use the $UUID filename in the lsblk command to extract the mountpoint The mount point must be