yawatch

Yet another file tree watcher/monitor that just works.

API Usage Example

var monitor = require('yawatch').createMonitor();
 
monitor.stat([
  '/tmp/test.txt',
  '/tmp/folder'
], function(err) {
  if(err) throw err;
  
  monitor
    .on('create', function(pathname, statObject) {
      // Handle new file or folder
    })
    .on('change', function(pathname, statObject, previousStatObject) {
      // Handle changed file or folder
    })
    .on('remove', function(pathname, statObject) {
      // Handle removed file or folder
    })
    .on('/tmp/test.txt', function(event, statObject, previousStatObject) {
      // Handle event for a specific file or folder
    })
    .on('*', function(event, pathname, statObject, previousStatObject) {
      // Handle any event for any file or folder
      // previousStatObject might be undefined
    })
    .on('error-stat', function(err, pathname) {})
    .on('error-readdir', function(err, pathname) {})
    .on('error-watch', function(err, pathname) {})
  ;
});

API

.createMonitor()

monitor.stat(array || string, callback)

monitor.reset()

monitor.destroy()

monitor.numPaths

monitor.numStatErrors

monitor.numReaddirErrors

monitor.numWatchErrors

Commandline Tool

Install

$ npm install yawatch -g

Usage

$ yawatch --help
Usage: yawatch [files and/or folders ...]
 
Options:
  --help          Prints this help.                                   [boolean]
  --exec          Use exec instead of spawn to run the command.       [boolean]
  --on-any        Command to execute on any event.                     [string]
  --on-create     Command to execute when a file/folder was created.   [string]
  --on-change     Command to execute when a file/folder did change.    [string]
  --on-remove     Command to execute when a file/folder was removed.   [string]
  --append-event  Append the event to the arguments of the command.   [boolean]
  --append-path   Append the pathname to the arguments of the command.
                                                                      [boolean]

Tests

$ npm test

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Oliver Leics [e-mail]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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