https://github.com/federicoceratto/nim-fswatch

Nim wrapper for the fswatch library
https://github.com/federicoceratto/nim-fswatch

filesystem fswatch libfswatch library nim nim-lang nimlang

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Nim wrapper for the fswatch library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/federicoceratto/nim-fswatch
• Owner: FedericoCeratto
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-04-03T19:10:49.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-07-09T16:16:28.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-05T20:42:22.804Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: filesystem, fswatch, libfswatch, library, nim, nim-lang, nimlang
• Language: Nim
• Size: 21.5 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.adoc
  • License: LICENSE

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## libfswatch wrapper

Cross-platform filesystem event monitor for Nim.

Wraps the https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch[libfswatch] library.

image:https://img.shields.io/badge/status-alpha-orange.svg[badge]

image:https://img.shields.io/badge/Nim%20version-0.19.0+-green.svg[Nim version]

image:https://img.shields.io/github/tag/FedericoCeratto/nim-fswatch.svg[tags]

image:https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL%20v3-blue.svg[License]

### Usage

[source,bash]

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sudo apt-get install libfswatch11

nimble install fswatch

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[source,nim]

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import times, fswatch

var monitor = newMonitor(latency=0.01)

monitor.add("my-file-path")

proc callback(eg: EventGroup) =

  for e in eg:

    echo e.path, " ", $e.kind, " ", e.time.utc()

monitor.setCallback(callback)

# blocks here

monitor.start()

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### Contributing

Testing and PRs are welcome.