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fwa-0.2

simple file watcher utility for OpenBSD

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Description

fwa - simple file change notifier keeping unix philosophy in mind. It is intended to be a clean and simple application to watch file changes on systems using kqueue. It does not execute any commands, just prints out the changed file's name. To handle the events, read fwa's output and act as you wish.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/fwa
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Peter Hajdu <peter@hajdu.im>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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