README
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2author: dominik karczmarski <dominik@karczmarski.com>
3source: http://fswatch.sourceforge.net/
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6OVERVIEW
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9 fswatch is a utility to guard changes in a file system. fswatch is composed
10 of three simple programs: fswbuild, fswcmp, fswshow. fswbuild builds file
11 system information database. fswcmp compairs two database files and returns
12 what changes a in file system have been introduced. fswshow shows contents of
13 database file. a file information database is platform independend.
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15 fswatch can collect the following information about files (and directories):
16 inode, links, uid, gid, mode, size, flags, ctime, checksum (sha1) ; and can
17 show which files were added, deleted or changed.
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19 fswatch is one of many similar utilities. the main difference is the confi-
20 guration. you can define different settings for every directory in a directo-
21 ry tree.
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23 for more information read fswbuild(1), fswcmp(1), fswshow(1), fswatch.conf(5)
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25 see project home page: http://fswatch.sourceforge.net .
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27 if you find any mistake in documentation please send me email.
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