File System Watcher

A small file system monitoring app which shows files that have been modified, created or deleted

Will build this to make it a cli tool rather than be in dev mode

Needed

• Poetry
• Python3.10>

Install dep

poetry install .

How to use

poetry run file_watcher/main.py . '\.py$'

Arguments

• Directory: Mandatory
• Pattern: Optional

Pattern matching

Regex will have to match python regex for e.g.

poetry run file_watcher/main.py . '\.py$'

This will look for only files with the extension .py.

To look for multiple patterns

Just extend the command for e.g.

poetry run file_watcher/main.py . '\.py$' '\.yml$' 'blah'

How to extend

• Add a file content checksumming
• Impl file filtering (should be done via the patterns already, just need to impl)
• Add a REST API to query file changes (might be interesting)
• Impl a TUI for an interface