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The watchdog library is great for this. It comes with an API and a command line tool: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

Compatibility:

  Linux 2.6 (inotify)
  Mac OS X (FSEvents, kqueue)
  FreeBSD/BSD (kqueue)
  Windows (ReadDirectoryChangesW with I/O completion ports; ReadDirectoryChangesW worker threads)
  OS-independent (polling the disk for directory snapshots and comparing them periodically; slow and not recommended)

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