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w32notify

w32notify - exit when the contents of a directory change

Synopsis

w32notify [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...

Description

This script is targeting to provide similar functionality as inotify/dnotify to Win32 command line. What is considered a change is determined by the --attrib, --modify, --size, --write, --security and --dir options (see below). These options may be combined. Use --all for all options enabled. If none of them are specified, the execution fails.

Options

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (--).

-B, --attrib
    Exit when any attribute changes.
-M, --modify
    Exit when a file name changes.
-Z, --size
    Exit when a file size changes.
-W, --write
    Exit when a change to a files last write time occurs.
-S, --security
    Exit when a security descriptor changes.
-D, --dir
    Exit when a directory name changes.
	
-a, --all
    Exit when any of the events above occurs. That is, this is a shorthand for -BMZWSD.
-q, --quiet, --silent
    Do not print warnings when the executed commands exits with a non-zero return value.
-h, --help
    Show this summary of options.

Dependencies

Getopt::Long;
Win32::ChangeNotify;

Author

w32notify was written by Michael Henke w32notify@codingmerc.com.