How to use "Watch" only for .txt and .xml

[Perkele]

Hello everyone,
I use the “Watch” command to monitor a directory including its subdirectories.
As soon as it reads data from the subdirectories I get the error message. "Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read"

Is there a way to only monitor .xml and .txt files?
BR Perkele

[Colin]

@Perkele

I use the “Watch” command to monitor a directory including its subdirectories.
As soon as it reads data from the subdirectories I get the error message. "Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read"

Exactly what Watch command are you using?

As soon as what reads from the subdirectories.

Also please show us the startup log from node-red, that will tell us a lot about your system.

[Steve-Mcl]

You can simply watch the directory and use a switch node after the watch to filter the .xml and .txt files

Demo flow (use CTRL+I to import it)

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