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FedericoCeratto/nim-fswatch
Nim wrapper for the fswatch library
libfswatch wrapper
Cross-platform filesystem event monitor for Nim.
Wraps the https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch[libfswatch] library.
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Usage
[source,bash]
sudo apt-get install libfswatch11
nimble install fswatch
[source,nim]
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()
Contributing
Testing and PRs are welcome.
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Contributors
GNU General Public License v3.0
Created April 3, 2019
Updated December 18, 2025