fswait: Wait and observe events on the filesystem for a path, with a timeout
fswait is a utility for blocking on the observation of a
filesystem event for a path with a timeout.
The primary use-case for this is in system startup scripts that depend on the existence of some file or directory that will be created by another system service or job.
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| Versions [RSS] | 1.0.0, 1.1.0 |
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| Dependencies | base (>=4.8 && <5), hinotify (>=0.3 && <0.4), optparse-applicative (>=0.12 && <0.14), optparse-generic (>=1.1.5 && <1.2), semigroups (>=0.18 && <0.19), stm (>=2.4.4.1 && <2.5), system-filepath (>=0.3.1 && <0.5), text (>=0.11 && <1.3), time-units (>=1.0.0 && <2.0), turtle (>=1.2.8 && <1.3) [details] |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | 2017 Parnell Springmeyer |
| Author | Parnell Springmeyer |
| Maintainer | parnell@digitalmentat.com |
| Category | Tools |
| Home page | https://github.com/ixmatus/fswait |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/ixmatus/fswait/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/ixmatus/fswait |
| Uploaded | by ParnellSpringmeyer at 2017-06-18T06:43:34Z |
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| Reverse Dependencies | 1 direct, 0 indirect [details] |
| Executables | fswait |
| Downloads | 1552 total (7 in the last 30 days) |
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| Status | Docs not available [build log] All reported builds failed as of 2021-06-03 [all 2 reports] |
Readme for fswait-1.0.0
[back to package description]Welcome!
fswait is a utility for blocking on the observation of a filesystem event for
a path with a timeout.
This is useful when you need to block the execution of a separate program on the creation (or some other filesystem event) of a filepath but you want that block constrained by a timeout.
A common use-case is in systemd services, some daemons may need a socket or some other file to exist before starting and it is common to write shell code to implement that check-and-wait-with-timeout.
This tool makes that pattern more easily expressed as a command line utility call that also supports observing many different filesystem events for the specified path.
$ fswait --path /etc/someconfig.ini --modify --create && echo 'Do something!'
observing Create Modify for /home/parnell/Desktop/test.sh
the window for an observation is 120s
Created {isDirectory = False, filePath = "someconfig.ini"}
Do something!
When an observation occurs, the utility will return immediately with an exit code of 0 and print the observed event.
If the timeout window is reached without an observation occurring, an exit code of 1 is returned.
$ fswait --help
Wait and observe events on the filesystem for a path, with a timeout
Usage: fswait [--timeout Seconds] --path FILEPATH [--exists] (--access |
--modify | --attrib | --close | --closeWrite | --closeNoWrite |
--open | --move | --moveIn | --moveOut | --moveSelf | --create |
--delete | --onlyDir | --noSymlink | --maskAdd | --oneShot |
--all) ([--access]... | [--modify]... | [--attrib]... |
[--close]... | [--closeWrite]... | [--closeNoWrite]... |
[--open]... | [--move]... | [--moveIn]... | [--moveOut]... |
[--moveSelf]... | [--create]... | [--delete]... | [--onlyDir]... |
[--noSymlink]... | [--maskAdd]... | [--oneShot]... | [--all]...)
Available options:
-h,--help Show this help text
--timeout Seconds Window to observe a filesystem event (default: 120s,
negative values wait indefinitely)
--path FILEPATH Observe filesystem events for path
--exists Return immediately if the filepath already exists
Installing
If you have Nix you can install it using:
$ nix-env --install --attr fswait release.nix