How can I exclude PATTERN from inotify/incron

Question

I'm using incron to watch for events in a directory but I want to exclude some subdirectory or some filename PATTERNS.

Is there a way I can do this elegantly?

Answer 1

You can't do exclusions through incrontab. You can list the files explicitly, or you can make a wrapper to filter files which you do not want to process.

A super-simple wrapper:

#!/bin/bash

if ! grep -q $1 /path/to/incron.excludes
then
    exec /path/to/realscript.sh $1
fi