gorph

gorph is an efficient recursive file watcher that accepts double-star globs.

In builds on fsnotify providing sorely needed recursive functionality while retaining it's excellent cross-platform support and stability.

Value Proposition

There does not appear to be a good alternative for this. The goal is:

efficient and flexible globbing
good cross-platform support
simple, intuitive API
usable as a package or a binary

Why Gorph

The name was chosen haphzaradly to seem like "go recursive file watcher".

Using it as a binary

Install and use like so:

$ go install github.com/sean9999/go-fsnotify-recursively/cmd/gorph@latest
$ gorph # watch everything recursively in current directory
$ gorph ~/Videos/**/*.mov # watch Videos recursively for anything with a .mov extension

Using as a package

package main
import (
    gorph "github.com/sean9999/go-fsnotify-recursively"
)

func main(){

    //  watch for any text file under ./testdata/
    //  double-stars mean search recursively
    watcher := gorp.New("testdata/**/*.txt")

    //  two channels
    events, errs := watcher.Listen()

    ...    
    

}