File System Watcher

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  • watcher

    Filesystem watcher. Works anywhere. Simple, efficient and friendly. (by e-dant)

  • >or is it simply an abstraction over inotify?

    Looks like it:

    https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/blob/989147b183ee0547d71a1...

  • reflex

    Run a command when files change (by cespare)

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  • fswatch

    A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.

  • Well, I am not too lazy to search but I was interested in your experience, especially with reliability.

    This one looks interesting: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch

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