watch-stream
ls meets tail -f
var watcher = require('watch-stream')
watcher(process.cwd(), opts)
.search(/mp3$/) //returns a stream!
.on('data', console.log)wraps mikeal
API
watcher(root, opts)
returns a WatchStream on all the flies under root.
.search (string | RegExp)
return a WatchStream of flies that match the string or regexp.
data objects look like this:
{ name: 'Charisma/Disasteradio - Charisma - 05 Gravy Rainbow.mp3',
create: true,
type: 'file',
size: 5598948,
mtime: '2012-09-14T13:51:57.000Z',
ctime: '2012-09-14T14:37:51.000Z' }type it taken off the stat object,
see fs.Stats
it corrisponds thusly:
return (
curr.isFile() ? 'file'
: curr.isDirectory() ? 'dir'
: curr.isBlockDevice() ? 'blocks'
: curr.isCharacterDevice() ? 'chars'
: curr.isSymbolicLink() ? 'symlink'
: curr.isFIFO() ? 'fifo'
: curr.isSocket() ? 'socket'
: undefined
).destroy
stop listening on changes
known issues
File watching is more or less broken in some way or another on each platfrom.
example: https://github.com/mikeal/watch/issues/36
and there are other tricky cases, like when a directory is moved. (now, the dir file still exists, but the names for the it's files are now all different)
License
MIT