![]() ![]() It is known only as Software, and not GNOME Software in Ubuntu 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 is using GNOME Software to replace Ubuntu Software Center. It was the elephant in the room, which Ubuntu devs refused to look at, until Ubuntu 16.04. Ubuntu Software Center had always been a resource heavy, sluggish and extremely slow application. Ubuntu Software Center will be dropped from Ubuntu 16.04. What’s new in Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu Software Center is no more I presume that you are already an Ubuntu user but even if you are not, you can still have a look at what’s coming in the latest version of world’s most popular Linux distribution. I have been following Ubuntu 16.04 LTS development for since the beginning and I think it’s time that I summarize the most important Ubuntu 16.04 features. ![]() As an ardent Ubuntu fan, you might be wondering about what’s new in Ubuntu 16.04. Even this simple use helped me solved my problem and I now finally have my local and remote files back in order □.Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus is releasing today. This is only the simplest use of inotifywait and I’m sure that there are way cooler applications of this tool. This way you’ll know if some of your files get moved or deleted and you can either selectively fish them out of the trash or at least pause the syncing if you see that something is not going according to plan. To monitor the changes in real-time you can then make use of the watch command: watch tail -n40. The last argument is the path to the directory you want to watch.This is optional, if not used you’ll see the output directly in your terminal. See the EVENTS section of man inotifywait for the complete list. -e is used to specify the types of events you want to watch.Also, check out the -d ( demon) option, if you want this to run independently of your terminal session. -m stands for monitor and it’ll make sure that inotifywait keeps watching your files until you kill it ( Ctrl + C is your friend here).-r stands for recursive, thanks to this option all files within the specified folder will be watched □.inotifywait -r -m -e create,delete,modify,moved_from,moved_to -o file-activity.log ~/Documents When installed you need to tell inotifywait which files and which events it should watch. You can install it by typing this into your terminal: sudo apt install inotify-tools This is where inotifywait comes into play. I wanted to have the same thing for changes made on my local drive without relying on the InSync’s Feed feature¹. It’s easy to see what has changed in Google Drive, you just need to open up the Activity tab on Drive’s home page and you see which files or directories were created or deleted throughout the whole storage. Just launching InSync and letting it do its thing caused some files and directories to be deleted either from my local or remote storage. Most of the files were the same, but some were changed locally, some were different in the cloud. However, I was in a situation where I had a lot of content in Google Drive and also on my local drive. InSync is really good at keeping your files, well, in sync. This tool has added to my comfort when - after nearly a year - I diced to (re-)synchronize my files between my local storage and Google Drive. It can monitor specific files but also whole file trees (directories). Inotifywait is a Linux utility which lets you do something whenever a file changes. Using inotifywait to check InSync’s first run ![]()
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