Apply action to a directory

[claudiu-cristea]

Can I use fsniper to act against a directory rather than a file? How?

[andrewyates]

There's currently no clean way to do this. The inotify API only generates events for files, so fsniper would need to implement a layer on top of that to return directory events.

You can achieve the same effect right now by recursively watching a directory for events. The corresponding handler will be called any time a file in the directory changes. With that approach you may want to implement a lock or delay in the handler, because mass file updates will cause the handler to run many times in a short period of time.

[claudiu-cristea]

Thank you. In fact I want to fix ownership & permissions to new created directories (not only files).