OVERVIEW
dir_monitor is a simple utility to print stat information from a directory in a formatted and organized form. In combination with watch it can be used for continous monitoring.
OPTIONS
Information can be found in the manpage or by calling the executable with --help.
BUILD
cmake -S .
make
This will also build executables with debug options and create a manpage.
The latter requires asciidoc, xmlto and gzip for compression.
TODO
- option for output file
- option for recursion
- configuration file in
${HOME}/.config/? (No from my side, KISS, but patches welcome) - formatting with non-ASCII characters in filenames,
--print-boxedmisformats due to the strlen result not matching the visual representation. - repeat mode? The original intention was to write a small utility creating output formatted in a form easy to be processed by the human eye/brain. This program was intended to be handled by the watch command (or similar) for active monitoring in a terminal. A repeat mode in combination with an output file could be used for logging, however this could also be done with a small shell script. If the output of the whole loop in the script is redirected the amount of additional filesystem related syscalls would be low. Of course if the redirection would be done for each call and attached to the end of the target file much more would be going on.