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Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2013-12-13 · latest 2024-11-23

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  1. …use a library.” Baffling. [0]: https://github.com/chrisjbillington/inotify_simple [1]: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog
    comment by sgarland · 2024-11-23 · in Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
  2. …It's scripted out so I don't ever use the command directly. https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/ https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog EDIT: Now I'm wondering how often I miss out on something because I confuse it for something I already…
    comment by dec0dedab0de · 2022-10-05 · in Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
  3. …constantly working, which is the real problem and entirely an optimization/design problem. [1]: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog [2]: https://cython.org/ [3]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/index.html [t]: ... except when forced…
    comment by TkTech · 2019-06-12 · in The new Dropbox
  4. …I use watchdog[1] for automatically running build and test commands on file change. [1] https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog
    comment by DarkCrusader2 · 2018-06-21 · in Using Unix as an IDE (2012)
  5. …grunt, watching_testrunner (which I eventually inherited maintainership of), watchman, watchdog ( https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog ), sniffer ( https://github.com/jeffh/sniffer ) entr is cross-platform on OS X, linux and BSD.…
    comment by tony · 2017-03-14 · in Entr(1) – Run tests whenever files change
  6. …3: https://github.com/gjulianm/MathUnicode 4: https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki 5: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog
    comment by gjulianm · 2014-11-11 · in Show HN: PreTeX, a LaTeX preprocessor to make math typesetting easier
  7. The watchdog library is great for this. It comes with an API and a command line tool: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog Compatibility: Linux 2.6 (inotify) Mac OS X (FSEvents, kqueue) FreeBSD/BSD (kqueue) Windows…
    comment by johtso · 2013-12-13 · in Tracking Changes in Directories with Python