Go bindings for libfswatch.

libfswatch provides comprehensive, cross-platform file change monitoring capabilities.

go-fswatch exposes all features provided by fswatch and libfswatch through an idiomatic Go API:

• cross-platform: inotify (Linux), FSEvents (macOS), Windows, kqueue (*BSD), File Events Notification (Solaris) and polling
• watch files and directories
• recursive watching
• file and directory filtering (using regular expressions)
• events filtering

First, install libfswatch:

1. Download the latest release (fswatch-<version>.tar.gz)
2. Compile and install libfswatch:

tar xzf fswatch-*.tar.gz
cd fswatch-*
./configure
make
sudo make install

Then, you can use this Go module as usual:

go get github.com/dunglas/go-fswatch

See the documentation.

This package depends on cgo. If you are looking for non-cgo alternatives, see:

• fsnotify (doesn't support FSEvents nor polling)
• notify (doesn't support include/exclude filters)

Created by Kévin Dunglas and sponsored by Les-Tilleuls.coop.