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systemd path unit questions
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I don't think you'll be able to achieve that with systemd paths, I'm afraid. It's not a use-case it is designed for.
It's hard to come up with a suggestion without knowing more about the depth of the directory and the number of nodes in each level. But you could try updating a dummy file such as
latest_timestampin the top-level directory (which a systemd path can monitor BTW) and let the service unit be triggered by that.The depth is changing constantly, because new subdirs are created and removed during the day and/or upload/sync process. Thats why the script is walking across the complete directory structure every time. But the dummy file is a nice suggestion. In this case, I can monitor only the dummy file and trigger the script on dummy file change. Good idea.