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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c537bc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +RWC(1) General Commands Manual RWC(1) + +NAME + rwc – report when changed + +SYNOPSIS + rwc [-0d] [path ...] + +DESCRIPTION + rwc takes a list of files or directories, watches them using inotify(7), + and prints each file name when it changed. If path is a single dash + (‘-’) or absent, rwc reads file names from the standard input. + + Watching a directory will result in watching all changes to files which + resides directly in that directory. + + The options are as follows: + + -0 Read input filenames seperated by NUL bytes. Likewise, output + filenames seperated by NUL bytes. + + -d Also detect file deletion. In this case, deleted files are + prefixed by ‘- ’ (that is, a dash and a space). + +EXIT STATUS + The rwc utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. + +SEE ALSO + entr(1), inotifywatch(1), wendy(1) + +CAVEATS + rwc is limited by some restrictions of inotify(7). You can only watch + files and directories you can read, and the amount of inotify descriptors + is limited. Watching directories is not recursive. + + rwc only uses one watch descriptor per directory, and filters file names + itself. This allows tracking files which get safely written by unlink(2) + and rename(2), and also watching files which don't exist yet. + + Many tools like to create temporary files in their working directory, + which may distort the output. + +AUTHORS + Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> + +LICENSE + rwc is in the public domain. + + To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all + copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. + + http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ + +Void Linux May 19, 2017 Void Linux |