File::ChangeNotify - Watch for changes to files, cross-platform style

       Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>

       •   Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org>

       •   H. Merijn Branch <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>

       •   Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

       This software is Copyright (c) 2009 - 2019 by Dave Rolsky.

       This is free software, licensed under:

         The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.

perl v5.40.1                                       2025-02-18                            File::ChangeNotify(3pm)

       This module provides an API for creating a File::ChangeNotify::Watcher subclass that will work on your
       platform.

       Most of the documentation for this distro is in File::ChangeNotify::Watcher.

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       This class provides the following methods:

   File::ChangeNotify->instantiate_watcher(...)
       This method looks at each available subclass of File::ChangeNotify::Watcher and instantiates the first
       one it can load, using the arguments you provided.

       It always tries to use the File::ChangeNotify::Watcher::Default class last, on the assumption that any
       other class that is available is a better option.

   File::ChangeNotify->usable_classes
       Returns a list of all the loadable File::ChangeNotify::Watcher subclasses except for
       File::ChangeNotify::Watcher::Default, which is always usable.

       File::ChangeNotify - Watch for changes to files, cross-platform style

       The source code repository for File-ChangeNotify can be found at
       <https://github.com/houseabsolute/File-ChangeNotify>.

       Bugs may be submitted at <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-ChangeNotify> or via
       email to bug-file-changenotify@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-file-changenotify@rt.cpan.org>.

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           use File::ChangeNotify;

           my $watcher =
               File::ChangeNotify->instantiate_watcher
                   ( directories => [ '/my/path', '/my/other' ],
                     filter      => qr/\.(?:pm|conf|yml)$/,
                   );

           if ( my @events = $watcher->new_events ) { ... }

           # blocking
           while ( my @events = $watcher->wait_for_events ) { ... }

       version 0.31