How to check which file got modified? about fswatch HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @neojski,

I sincerely do not understand the question. fswatch watches the specified files and directories and reports which one have been modified and how. Also, there's now plenty of documentation including:

• The README file.
• The Texinfo manual in PDF format.
• The man page.

Cheers,
-- Enrico

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I'm sorry for not being specific. When I used https://github.com/pipobscure/fsevents it reported the exact file in the directory subtree that got modified. No matter how deep it was.

In other words, let's imagine I have a directory with lots of files/directories inside. When I run fswatch it just reports some numbers. I don't want to start fswatch for every single file in the directory. So is it possible that watching directory something reports something/inside/this/dir has changed?

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fswatch surely does that on OS X (if you read the doc, the behaviour of the recursive option slightly depends on the monitor being used).

Right now, on my system:

% ./src/fswatch ~
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/.zsh_history.LOCK
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Local State
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/.zsh_history.new
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/.zsh_history
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/.zsh_history.LOCK
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
/Users/enricomariacrisostomo/Library/SyncedPreferences/com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist

How are you invoking fsevents? I guess that, if it just dumps numbers, you are using it with -o/--one-per-batch.

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I'm sorry for the confusion, @emcrisostomo. It reports the same for me. I must have messed up something last time I checked that.

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Hi @neojski, no problems, issues are here to help.

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