inotify_watch_cr

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  • master branchlatestDec 26, 2022

github.com/ntumbuka/inotify_cr

File system events watcher in Crystal

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License: MIT

Installation

# Add this to your shard.yml
dependencies:
  inotify_watch_cr:
    github: ntumbuka/inotify_cr
    branch: master

master is a branch, not a release, so this tracks it rather than pinning a version.

Then run:

shards install

shard.yml

Crystal
1.5.1
License
MIT
Author
Walter Kaunda
Target
  • inotify_watch from src/watch.cr

Dependencies

This version declares no dependencies.

README

inotify_cr

Tracks file creations and deletions in a directory. This project was meant to help me learn a bit about creating C library bindings. Don't take it too seriously. If you need a properly built tool with similar functionality then please look at inotify-tools.

Building

Building this requires Crystal 1.6.1 or better and Linux with GNU libc

crystal build src/watch.cr

Usage

./watch path-to-directory

Once you start the application, it will log lines as below for every file create and delete. This will only work on file systems that inotify supports.

DELETED: file1
DELETED: file2
DELETED: file3
DELETED: file5
CREATED: file1

Contributing

  1. Fork it (https://github.com/kwalter94/inotify_cr/fork)
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

Documentation

Read the API docs

Built from the current release. The first visit to a release nobody has asked for starts its build.

Links

This branch

Branch
master
Seen
Dec 26, 2022
Crystal
1.5.1
Indexed
yes

Dependents

No indexed shard depends on this one yet.

Repository

github.com/ntumbuka/inotify_cr

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Aug 12, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
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