file-watch - Watch files and directories for changes
This documentation refers to file-watch version 0.005
file-watch [option] [file(s)] OPTIONS: -d --dir Check directories --no-dir Don't check directories (Default) -t --type[=]str Specify the type of file events to listen for, more than one event can be specified. - IN_ACCESS - IN_MODIFY - IN_ATTRIB - IN_CLOSE_WRITE - IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE - IN_OPEN - IN_ALL_EVENTS - IN_MOVED_FROM - IN_MOVED_TO - IN_CREATE - IN_DELETE - IN_DELETE_SELF - IN_MOVE_SELF - ALL - special pseudo event setting all events on so you can see which ones are actually fired -r --report When killed, a report will be generated of all files modified -c --command[=]'command to run' When a file is detected to have changed this command can be run -v --verbose Show more detailed option --version Prints the version information --help Prints this help information --man Prints the full documentation for file-watch
file-watch uses iNotify to track when files change. The types of changes can be found in Linux::Inotify2.
file-watch
When you use the --command option changes will be chunked and displayed every second. The program you run can find the files that triggered it by inspecting the environment variable $CHANGED which is a colon (:) separated list of files.
--command
$CHANGED
There are no known bugs in this module.
Please report problems to Ivan Wills (ivan.wills@gmail.com).
Patches are welcome.
Ivan Wills - (ivan.wills@gmail.com)
Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Ivan Wills (14 Mullion Close, Hornsby Heights, NSW Australia 2077). All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
To install App::filewatch, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm App::filewatch
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install App::filewatch
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.