eirtscience / inotify

Fnotify

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Fnotify is similar to the linux notify program where it watch directory for change. Beside watching directory for changed, Inotify execute a set of specify action using the action option.

Requirement

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• Environment

  • Operating System : GNU/Linux Ubuntu 18.04

• Software packages

  Packages	Version
  python	3.5+

How it works

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fnotify allows you to describe an action to execute whenener a given directory contain has been changed. When running fnotify for the first time

Installation Guide

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• Install using pip

  Download the installation script following the below command.

  ~$ pip install fnotify

  Now go ahead and run the below command and wait.

  ~$ fnotify --help

Fnotify command line

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The below table describe the information needed by fnotify to work.

Option	Description	Default
dir	The directory to watch
action	Action to perform when the contain of the directory changed

• Watch directory folder with fnotify

  Let us run fnotify on a module folder called module_folder

  $> fnotify --dir module_folder --action="ls -la"

  The above command tell fnotify to watch the "module_folder" directory, whenever any file has been changed in that directory and rerun the ls -la shell command.