fswatch is a utility to guard changes in a file system.
fswatch is composed of three simple programs: fswbuild, fswcmp, fswshow.
fswbuild builds file system information database. fswcmp compairs two
database files and returns what changes a in file system have been introduced.
fswshow shows contents of database file. a file information database is platform
independend.
fswatch can collect the following information about files (and directories):
inode, links, uid, gid, mode, size,
flags, ctime, checksum (sha1) ; and can
show which files were added, deleted or changed.
fswatch is one of many similar utilities. the main difference is the
configuration. you can define different settings for every directory in a directory
tree. moreover, it is very small and fast.
tutorials
manual pages
all sources are at sourceforge (download). the lastest version: 0.02beta5.