Re: Bug#706458: ITP: inotify-hookable -- blocking command-line interface to inotify

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Thursday 02 May 2013 11:29:58 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > How is that better than the existing inotify shell tools? What do they
> > lack and why not improve them instead of writing a new one?
> 
> inotify-hookable main advantage over inotywait are:
> - you can specify command to run after watch as option. 
> - watch are restarted
> - when watching a directory, inotify-hookable ignore emacs 
>   and backup files by default.
> - you can specify different commands to run depending on which
>   files was changed 
> 
> inotifywait is better suited to be used within a shell script.
> 
> inotify-hookable is better when you just want to run something on the command 
> line.
> 
> I currently use the following command to compile a bunch of less files into a 
> css file. The css file and the less file are located in the same directory:
> 
> inotify-hookable -w . -i '.*css$' -c '../../enyo/tools/lessc.sh ./package.js'

Still no argument to have 2 source packages. The inotify-tools source could
provide both interfaces if they can't be merged into a single one.

Inotify-tools already has inotifywait and inotifywatch. I don't see a
reason why inotifyhook couldn't be added as 3rd tool. They could
probably share a lot of code too.

Just my 2c,
	Goswin