A filesystem watchdog. It watches events on files and directories on a given portion of a filesystem. Events can happen on files or directories; everything which isn't a directory is considered as a file (alias and/or link too). Recordered events are classified as follows:
- Created: a new item has been created in the watched portion of the filesystem.
- Moved: an item has been moved from or to a watched portion of the filesystem.
- Modified: an item in the watched portion of the filesystem has been edited.
- Deleted: an item in the watched portion of the filesystem has been removed.
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wd.exe version 1.0.0
usage: wd.exe [-h] [-i IGNORED [IGNORED ...]] [-g] [-p] [-ci CI] [-ls LS]
[-ln LN]
location log
It records events on a given portion of filesystem.
positional arguments:
location The portion of the filesystem to watch.
log The log file that will contain event entries.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i IGNORED [IGNORED ...], --ignored IGNORED [IGNORED ...]
Pattern of items to ignore.
-g, --git When given it performs commit on the log folder.
-p, --push When given it performs pushes on the log folder.
-ci CI, --commit-interval CI
When given it defines after how much time commits to
logs are performed; defaults to 60 (seconds).
-ls LS, --log-size LS
When given defines the maximum size of each log file;
defaults to 30 (MB).
-ln LN, --log-number LN
When given defines the maximum number of log files of
the given size; defaults to 10.
When the specified log file is actually stored into the watched portion of the filesystem every change to it will be reported as an event in the log file, thus generating a huge number of unuseful events. In such cases, to avoid this circumstance wd should be executed with the -i option with at least one (regex) pattern matching the name of the log file. Take a look at the following example:
wd.exe C:\ C:\Users\Jhon\Logs\wd.log -i "wd\.log$"
-------------The dot (.) in the regexp language has special meaning, so it must be escaped in order for it to be matched literally. The dollar sign (-$) at the end of the regex means that the matching string must end there.
