jp-watch-rust (depricated, use jp-watch instead)

Minimalist app to recursively watch a directory for changes.

Written for jp-sync because fswatch and inotify-tools didn't produce consistent results including directories identified across platforms.

Limitations

On Linux inotify is used. Unfortunately inotify won't watch new files or directories added after the watch has started, unlike the MacOS version which uses FSEvents.

Installation

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/jdspugh/jp-watch.git
$ cd jp-watch
$ cargo build --release
$ sudo cp target/release/jp-watch /usr/local/bin

To uninstall:

$ cd ~
$ sudo mv /usr/local/bin/jp-watch /tmp
$ mv jp-watch /tmp

Useage

$ jp-watch <directory to watch>

Output is of the form:

file1.ext1
dir/file2.ext2
dir/
dir/subdir/

Note that directories will always end with a slash to it's easy to distinguish them from files.

Examples:

$ jp-watch .

$ jp-watch dir