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CLUSTER CHANGES-FILE-UTILITY · 29 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-03-02

Filesystem watch utilities

This cluster covers filesystem watchers that detect changes and trigger callbacks, commands, restarts, backups, or alerts. Dated entries appear steadily but sparsely from 2012 through 2026, with no clear upward or downward trend. Traction leaders are gamin, livediff, and direvent, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

FEB 2012: 1MAY 2012: 1SEP 2012: 1FEB 2013: 1MAR 2013: 1JUN 2013: 1SEP 2014: 1JUL 2015: 1SEP 2015: 1NOV 2016: 1MAR 2017: 1MAR 2019: 1JUN 2019: 1MAY 2020: 1SEP 2020: 1FEB 2021: 1JUN 2021: 1SEP 2021: 1DEC 2021: 1MAY 2022: 1DEC 2023: 1JAN 2025: 1JUN 2025: 1FEB 2026: 2MAR 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
FEB 2012OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 18 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01dsh-update-checker17★25 days—hand-codedhobbyUpdate management tool for software and plugins with semver checks, one-click updates, and watchdog restart.
  2. 02file-watcher0★5 days—hobbyWindows utility that watches a folder and moves files or sends them to a network printer automatically.
  3. 03gamin0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceA filesystem monitoring library that watches for file and directory changes and notifies applications about modifications.
  4. 04livediff0★29 daysliveopen sourceTerminal application that watches file changes in real time and displays dynamic visual diffs as updates occur.
  5. 05direvent0★3 moliveopen sourceDaemon that monitors events in file system directories and executes actions on changes.
  6. 06mon0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceFilesystem watcher that runs shell commands on file changes for automation.
  7. 07inotify-ada0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA library that monitors filesystem events using the Linux inotify API, allowing applications to respond to file changes.
  8. 08lstart0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that watches directory changes and restarts running processes when files change.
  9. 09file-warden0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFile monitoring utility that observes changes in system files and triggers actions.
  10. 10perl-file-monitor0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePortable library that monitors file changes and provides file-mon functionality.
  11. 11nano-backup0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFile tracking utility that monitors changes to enable backup and version control.
  12. 12perl-file-monitor-lite0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceWatcher that monitors file changes and alerts when modifications occur.
  13. 13monitorfs0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceUtility that monitors a filesystem for changes and runs a configured command whenever a filesystem event occurs.
  14. 14dotbackup0★5 moliveopen sourceUtility that backs up configuration dotfiles and restores them.
  15. 15nodejs-nodemon0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceMonitoring script for Node.js that restarts an application when files change.
  16. 16python-relayfsd0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceA tool that monitors a source directory and uploads new files to a destination directory automatically.
  17. 17iwatch0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceProgram that watches a filesystem for changes and reports file modification events in real time.
  18. 18python-hupper0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA process monitor that automatically restarts a development server when its source files change.
  19. 19gikkon0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that backs up configuration files using version control to track and restore changes.
  20. 20perl-sys-gamin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourcePerl library that exposes file system change events from the Gamin file access monitor to applications.

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