dirwatcher's Introduction

Dirwatcher

A long running python 3 program that monitors certain file extensions in a directory for a certain text phrase.

Arguments

positional arguments:
  text               text to be found

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -d DIR, --dir DIR  directory to be watched, defaults to '.'
  -i INT, --int INT  polling interval, defaults to 1 second
  -e EXT, --ext EXT  extension to be watched, defaults to .txt

Example Usage

python dirwatcher.py -d test -i 2 -e .txt hello

this starts watching the directory ./test with a polling interval of 2 seconds, looking in only files with the extension '.txt' for the phrase 'hello'

Example Output

2019-07-09 10:45:54.678 __main__     INFO     
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Started dirwatcher.py.
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2019-07-09 10:45:54.678 __main__     INFO     Scanning test for files ending in .txt that contain hello
2019-07-09 10:45:54.678 __main__     INFO     test3.txt added to watchlist.
2019-07-09 10:45:54.679 __main__     INFO     test/test3.txt: found 'hello' on line 13
^C2019-07-09 10:46:10.180 __main__     WARNING  Received SIGINT
2019-07-09 10:46:10.180 __main__     INFO     Terminating dirwatcher -- keyboard interrupt signal
2019-07-09 10:46:10.734 __main__     INFO     
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Stopped watching
Uptime was 16 seconds
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