# Installer fsevents-tools avec Homebrew, MacPorts

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de fsevents-tools pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:fsevents-tools
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fsevents-tools
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install fsevents-tools
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/fsevents-tools/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:fsevents-tools
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Résumé source:** Command-line utilities for the FSEvents API
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://geoff.greer.fm/fsevents/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- autorsync (alias)
- notifyloop (alias)
- notifywait (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.0.0
## Historique du projet et usages

FSEvents Tools is a small macOS command-line package for watching directories through Apple's FSEvents API and triggering shell actions when changes occur.

### Historique du projet

The project was created by Geoff Greer as an OS X counterpart to Linux inotify-tools. Its README describes the package as command-line tools and scripts around OS X FSEvents, and the project site distributes signed release tarballs.

The public GitHub repository metadata records the repository as created in 2012. The upstream release page lists the 0.2.x, 0.3.0, and 1.0.0 tarballs, indicating a compact release history rather than a large framework-style project.

### Historique d'adoption

The package is mainly aimed at macOS users who want inotify-tools-like behavior without writing against the FSEvents API directly. In the supplied package data it is packaged by Homebrew and MacPorts, matching that macOS focus.

### Modes d'utilisation

The README centers on three executables: notifywait for one-shot change notification, notifyloop for repeating a command after changes, and autorsync for rsync-based synchronization after file changes.

Common examples include sounding an alert when a directory changes, rebuilding LESS/CSS assets, and syncing a working tree to a remote server.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

FSEvents Tools matters to package-manager users because it fills the same shell-scriptable niche on macOS that inotify-tools fills on Linux. It is a small native watcher that can be composed with make, rsync, build scripts, and other Unix tools.

### Chronologie

- 2012: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2015: Project site described FSEvents Tools as the OS X counterpart to inotify-tools and documented signed release tarballs.
- 2016: Upstream repository activity shows the compact toolset stabilized around its existing command-line utilities.

### Related projects

- The README names inotify-tools as the direct inspiration and related Linux counterpart.
- The README also mentions Lsyncd as related software for keeping files synchronized between systems.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/ggreer/fsevents-tools>
- <https://geoff.greer.fm/fsevents>
- <https://github.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ggreer/fsevents-tools/master/README.md>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** blue / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- MacPorts - fsevents-tools: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/fsevents-tools/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fsevents-tools.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fsevents-tools.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph