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How To Install fswatch 1.9.3 On CentOS 7.6

How To Install fswatch 1.9.3 On CentOS 7.6

fswatch is a free, open-source cross-platform file change monitor utility that notifies us when the contents of the specified files or directories are changed.

This tutorial covers the method to install fswatch 1.9.3 version on centos 7.6

Download link: Click here to download

Installing fswatch

Install the appropriate dependencies and compilers to configure the fswatch binary package.

[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
There is no installed groups file.
Maybe run: yum groups mark convert (see man yum)
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.dhakacom.com
 * extras: mirror.vodien.com
 * updates: mirror.dhakacom.com
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check.
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Dependency Installed:
  apr.x86_64 0:1.4.8-5.el7                     apr-util.x86_64 0:1.5.2-6.el7                 cpp.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7                       
  dwz.x86_64 0:0.11-3.el7                      gettext-common-devel.noarch 0:0.19.8.1-2.el7  gettext-devel.x86_64 0:0.19.8.1-2.el7           
  glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.17-292.el7            glibc-headers.x86_64 0:2.17-292.el7           kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 0:3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7 
  kernel-headers.x86_64 0:3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7  libgfortran.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7             libquadmath.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7               
  libquadmath-devel.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7      libstdc++-devel.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7         m4.x86_64 0:1.4.16-10.el7                       
  perl-Data-Dumper.x86_64 0:2.145-3.el7        perl-Error.noarch 1:0.17020-2.el7             perl-Git.noarch 0:1.8.3.1-20.el7                
  perl-TermReadKey.x86_64 0:2.30-20.el7        perl-Test-Harness.noarch 0:3.28-3.el7         perl-Thread-Queue.noarch 0:3.02-2.el7           
  perl-XML-Parser.x86_64 0:2.41-10.el7         perl-srpm-macros.noarch 0:1-8.el7             python-srpm-macros.noarch 0:3-32.el7            
  subversion-libs.x86_64 0:1.7.14-14.el7       systemtap-client.x86_64 0:4.0-10.el7_7        systemtap-devel.x86_64 0:4.0-10.el7_7           

Dependency Updated:
  glibc.x86_64 0:2.17-292.el7                       glibc-common.x86_64 0:2.17-292.el7           libgcc.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7               
  libgomp.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7                     libstdc++.x86_64 0:4.8.5-39.el7              rpm.x86_64 0:4.11.3-40.el7                 
  rpm-build-libs.x86_64 0:4.11.3-40.el7             rpm-libs.x86_64 0:4.11.3-40.el7              rpm-python.x86_64 0:4.11.3-40.el7          
  systemtap-runtime.x86_64 0:4.0-10.el7_7          

Complete!

Download the latest binary package of fswatch.

[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# wget https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch/releases/download/1.9.3/fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz
--2019-10-23 14:13:43--  https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch/releases/download/1.9.3/fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
--2019-10-23 14:13:44--  https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/236537/2f876ba4-510a-11e6-9c0c-23d688817362?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20191023%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20191023T031345Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=83ce24f22c24ba1e97c4050b124cf53955da34f529562567ec35ed2635c5db34&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dfswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.216.20.107
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.20.107|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1243495 (1.2M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz’

100%[===================================================================================================>] 1,243,495    561KB/s   in 2.2s   

2019-10-23 14:13:47 (561 KB/s) - ‘fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz’ saved [1243495/1243495]

Verify the fswatch tar file in the current working directory.

 [root@linuxhelp1 ~]# ls -la | grep fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz 
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1243495 May 23  2017 fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz

Extract the tar file of fswatch

[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# tar xzf fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz 

List the extracted directory as follows
[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# ls -la | grep fswatch
-rwxr-xr-x   1  501 games     311 Jul 23  2016 ._fswatch-1.9.3
drwxr-xr-x   9  501 games    4096 Jul 23  2016 fswatch-1.9.3
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1243495 May 23  2017 fswatch-1.9.3.tar.gz

Change the directory to fswatch to install the fswatch.

[root@linuxhelp1 ~]# cd fswatch-1.9.3/

List the contents in the fswatch directory

[root@linuxhelp1 fswatch-1.9.3]# ls -la
total 1212
drwxr-xr-x   9  501 games   4096 Jul 23  2016 .
dr-xr-x---. 15 root root    4096 Oct 23 14:14 ..
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Jul 23  2016 ._ABOUT-NLS
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games  93787 Jul 23  2016 ABOUT-NLS
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Jul 23  2016 ._aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games  44727 Jul 23  2016 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    147 Apr 16  2016 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Apr 16  2016 ._AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games  45919 Jul 23  2016 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Jul 23  2016 ._ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x   2  501 games   4096 Oct 23 14:14 config
-rwxr-xr-x   1  501 games    311 Jul 23  2016 ._config
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Jul 23  2016 ._config.h.in
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games   2931 Jul 23  2016 config.h.in
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-rw-r--r--   1  501 games   4741 Apr 16  2016 README.osx
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Apr 16  2016 ._README.smartos
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games   3107 Apr 16  2016 README.smartos
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Apr 16  2016 ._README.solaris
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games   2127 Apr 16  2016 README.solaris
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games    280 Apr 16  2016 ._README.windows
-rw-r--r--   1  501 games   2839 Apr 16  2016 README.windows
drwxr-xr-x   2  501 games    202 Jul 23  2016 src
-rwxr-xr-x   1  501 games    311 Jul 23  2016 ._src

Verify the compilers and dependency packages which are essential for the fswatch installation.

 [root@linuxhelp1 fswatch-1.9.3]# ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for data-style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/doxygen/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/libfswatch/Makefile
config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
config.status: creating doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
config.status: creating libfswatch_config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing po-directories commands
config.status: creating po/POTFILES
config.status: creating po/Makefile

Build the software after the successful verification of dependencies and compilers.

[root@linuxhelp1 fswatch-1.9.3]# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3'
Making all in libfswatch
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/libfswatch'
make  all-recursive
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/libfswatch'
Making all in src
make[4]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/libfswatch/src'
Making all in libfswatch
make[5]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/libfswatch/src/libfswatch`
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Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3'

Now intsall the built utility using the following command.

 [root@linuxhelp1 fswatch-1.9.3]# make install
Making install in libfswatch
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/libfswatch'
Making install in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3/libfswatch/src'
Making install in libfswatch
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/usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/doc/fswatch'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 README.bsd README.codedata-style README.freebsd README.gnu-build-system README.illumos README.md README.linux README.osx README.smartos README.solaris README.windows ABOUT-NLS AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING.md COPYING LICENSE NEWS '/usr/local/share/doc/fswatch'
 /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/man/man7'
 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 man/fswatch.7 '/usr/local/share/man/man7'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/fswatch-1.9.3'

Create A necessary link to the shared libraries so that fswatch can be used globally.

 [root@linuxhelp1 fswatch-1.9.3]# ldconfig

Check the version of fswatch command as follows.

 [root@linuxhelp1 ~]# fswatch --version
fswatch 1.9.3
Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Enrico M. Crisostomo <enrico.m.crisostomo@gmail.com>.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Enrico M. Crisostomo.

With this, successful Installation of fswatch 1.9.3 on CentOS 7.6 comes to end.

Tag : Fswatch CentOS
FAQ
Q
How to kill the fswatch command?
A
kill is the command to kill the fswatch command.
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Is there any possibility to get the PID of a running fswatch command?
A
Yes, you could get the pid of a running fswatch command.
Q
What does fswatch do?
A
fswatch monitors the files and directories and notifies the user whenever a change happens.
Q
Is fswatch package pre-installed in the yum repository?
A
No, fswatch package isn't pre-installed in the yum repository.
Q
Is fswatch pre-installed in the ubuntu repository?
A
Yes, fswatch is pre-installed in the Ubuntu repository.