Rorshach

A watchman for your directories. Rorshach allows you to watch your directories for changes and trigger certain commands when these events occur.

Usage

• ./rorshach -f <dir> [-config <config_path>] [-t <seconds_to_wait_before_reload>]

The default config file lies at ~/.rorshach.conf

Config File

The config file has rules of the following form

EVENT  PATTERN   ACTION
...     ...       ...

EVENTS can be CREATE, DELETE RENAME or MODIFY. Each event is trigger when a file in the directory being watched is CREATED, DELETED, MODIFIED or RENAMED respectively. PATTERNS are patterns to match the files in a directory. Example *.cpp matches all the C++ files in a directory. ACTIONS are commands that can be executed when a EVENT occures

There are following environment variable available while executing an action, they are :- {FULLPATH} - Full path to the file, {BASEDIR} - Path to the directory that rorshach is watching {NEWFULLPATH} - New Path to the file, when a file is renamed else empty.

Examples

CREATE  *   echo " New file named ${FULLPATH} created"

The above will print a line of the form New file named <file-name> created every time a new file is created.

MODIFY  *.cpp   g++ ${FULLPATH} {BASEDIR}/test

Whenver a change is detected in a c++ file, rorshach will compile that file and create an executable named test in the base directory

TODO

• Add more events to listen like Rename
• Support execution of a chain of commands for a single event
• Move Command Line passing to a different struct
• Add a threadpool to execute each task once an event is spawned
• Add a pub-sub mechanism for events
• Add Tests?
• Move parse_rules to an enclosing struct
• Use log create for logging.
• Provide better messages for errors.
• Add a pub sub mechanism to listening to events and consuming them