The tool allows you to monitor filesystem events or FSEvents on a Mac.
This is a clone from http://github.com/proger/fsevent_watch
Updated to include more flags, inode numbers and timestamps
fsevent_watch v0.2
A flexible command-line interface for the FSEvents API
Usage: fsevent_watch [OPTIONS]... [PATHS]...
-h, --help you're looking at it
-V, --version print version number and exit
-p, --show-plist display the embedded Info.plist values
-s, --since-when=EventID fire historical events since ID
-l, --latency=seconds latency period (default='0.5')
-n, --no-defer enable no-defer latency modifier
-F, --file-events provide file level event data
% ./fsevent_watch -F /Users/SomeUser/Desktop
Current_Timestamp Event_ID Inode Event_Flags Path
2019-06-07 15:38:43 24880655 8599274640 0x00010100=[created,isfile] /Users/SomeUser/Desktop/My_Test_File.txt
2019-06-07 15:39:58 24881111 8599274640 0x00011000=[modified,isfile] /Users/SomeUser/Desktop/My_Test_File.txt
2019-06-07 15:40:18 24881273 8599274640 0x00011000=[modified,isfile] /Users/SomeUser/Desktop/My_Test_File.txt
2019-06-07 15:40:40 24881611 0 0x00010200=[removed,isfile] /Users/SomeUser/Desktop/My_Test_File.txt
2019-06-07 15:40:54 24881804 8599274718 0x00010100=[created,isfile] /Users/SomeUser/Desktop/My_Test_File.txt
- just run
make install(and make sure you have a compiler)
- fsevents API does not follow symlinks