scripts
watcher.py
This uses inotify to monitor file changes.
As with pip install pyinotify or apt-get install python-pyinotify on ubuntu.
- It is built on: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify
- I kept the MIT license in place for that reason.
- I worked from one of the tutorials provided: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/blob/master/python2/examples/chain.py
The request was to report "all files with names starting with an underscore created under /home to $path/newfiles.log":
- All files in the tree under /home, not just /home/filename, but anything under /home, to include /home/dir/filename/*/_file
- I assumed the request meant "files", not directories that start with an underscore, but files and only files
- I assumed that in real world scenarios, for example if something was going to tail /var/log/newfiles.log and act on the data there, perhaps with a logtail (http://sourceforge.net/projects/logtail/) combined with a specific code response, and since I assumed we were recursively concerned for all matching files under /home, it made sense to me to report/log the "file" as the fully qualified path for the found/matched file, and that was what I did.