For review if helpful: Add --include and --includei options mirroring --exclude and --excludei

[ghost]

This pull request adds an additional invert argument to libinotifytools' inotifytools_ignore_events_by_regex, which allows the ignore logic in the RETURN(A) macro to be optionally negated.

Then, in inotifywatch and inotifywait, this pull request adds --include and --includei options, allowing regular expressions typically used with --exclude and --excludei to be easily negated.

I was looking for a way to easily watch for the close-after-write of exactly one regular file named 'system' in a particular directory, and couldn't find an easy way to to effectively express "exclude everything except for the string 'system'", since there was no way to invert matches and the POSIX regexec() doesn't support positive/negative lookahead assertions.

There was a thread with a similar issue here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7943528/inotifywait-exclude-regex-pattern-formatting

I have a patch that applies cleanly against master too, and can post it if it'd be at all helpful. I also haven't had a chance to add tests (just hacked this out last night in front of the TV), but would be willing to.

Copyright assigned to you; do what you will. 👍

[Seegras]

Yes, merge please. It often happens that you want to monitor a slew of directories for the appearance of one specifically named file (or named after a specific pattern, i.e. .log or core.), and you can't just exclude every other possible filename.

[ericcurtin]

@ghost thanks so much for the contribution really appreciated. If you wouldn't mind could you look into adding unit tests, integration tests, man page documentation?

@Seegras actually, the helpful contributor seems to have deleted his account.

I would prefer master to be the development branch also. Eventually we will just have master and other branches for stable releases.