fsevent_watch を Homebrew でインストール

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• fsevent_watch

プロジェクトの歴史

The project is intentionally compact: the GitHub repository shows a C and Makefile codebase with a small commit history. Its upstream README emphasizes parseable tab-delimited output and line buffering, making it easy to compose with tools such as grep, xargs, make, and Markdown renderers.

The lone GitHub release, v0.2, was published in January 2021 for macOS 11+ support.

採用の歴史

Homebrew packaging gives fsevent_watch a simple install path for users who want raw FSEvents output without embedding a Ruby gem or larger watcher framework. Its niche is macOS-only development automation and file-change scripting.

使われ方

The README examples pipe `fsevent_watch -F` into line-buffered filters and `xargs` to rebuild C files or regenerate Markdown output. The tool does not document a config or credentials file; it is used directly from shell pipelines.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

fsevent_watch is package-nerd relevant because it is a tiny single-purpose wrapper around a platform API. It fills the gap between high-level cross-platform file watchers and macOS's native event stream, which is exactly the kind of utility Homebrew keeps discoverable.

タイムライン

• 2021: v0.2 was released with macOS 11+ support.

Related projects

• rb-fsevent is the upstream Ruby-related project whose C tool was forked into fsevent_watch.
• Apple FSEvents is the macOS filesystem-event API that the tool exposes.

ソース

• https://github.com/proger/fsevent_watch
• https://github.com/proger/fsevent_watch/releases