anthrax3 / pyinotify

Monitoring filesystems events with inotify on Linux.

Pyinotify

• License : MIT
• Project URL : http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify
• Project Wiki : http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki
• API Documentation: http://seb-m.github.com/pyinotify

Dependencies

• Linux ≥ 2.6.13
• Python ≥ 2.4 (including Python 3.x)

Install

Get the current stable version from PyPI and install it with pip

# To install pip follow http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html
$ sudo pip install pyinotify

Or install Pyinotify directly from source

# Choose your Python interpreter: either python, python2.7, python3.2,..
# Replacing XXX accordingly, type:
$ sudo pythonXXX setup.py install

Watch a directory

Install pyinotify and run this command from a shell:

$ python -m pyinotify -v /my-dir-to-watch