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OVERVIEW
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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
=======
Call: dir\_monitor OPTIONS path\_to\_open
| long | short | option | description |
| ---- | ----- | ------ | ----------- |
| --help | -h | | Show this message and exit |
| --format-string | | format | define columns to print, details below |
| --long-timestamp | -t | | Print timestamp in long form yyyymmdd HH:MM:SS ZONE |
| --print-header | -H | | Print a header above the columns |
| --reverse-sort | | | | Sort reversed |
| --show-hidden-entries | -v | | Show hidden entries in the directory |
| --sort-by | | variant | Sort either by variant |
| --time-field | | a\|c\|m | Sort by (a)ccess, (c)hange or (m)odification time. Default: m |
--sort-by variants: name | size | time
--format-string: Aside from the characters in the table only space is
accepted. Currently at max 80 bytes of the format string are processed.
| | |
| - | - |
| A | access time |
| C | change time |
| G | group name |
| g | group id |
| M | modification time |
| n | file name |
| p | permissions |
| s | size |
| T | type |
| t | time defined by --time-field |
| U | user name |
| u | user id |
TODO
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- option for output file
- option for recursion
- option for symlink handling
- option with lowest priority: nice formatting, do the whole formatting in
memory and based on the length information gathered put it into a visual
table.
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