inotify_cr

Tracks file creations and deletions in a directory. This project was meant to help me learn a bit about creating C library bindings. Don't take it too seriously. If you need a properly built tool with similar functionality then please look at inotify-tools.

Building

Building this requires Crystal 1.6.1 or better and Linux with GNU libc

crystal build src/watch.cr

Usage

./watch path-to-directory

Once you start the application, it will log lines as below for every file create and delete. This will only work on file systems that inotify supports.

DELETED: file1
DELETED: file2
DELETED: file3
DELETED: file5
CREATED: file1

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/kwalter94/inotify_cr/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Walter Kaunda - creator and maintainer