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A Go console application that watches directories for changes and synchronizes them using various protocols (FTP, SFTP, Rsync).

• File System Watching: Monitors a directory for file/folder creation, modification, and deletion
• Recursive Watching: Detects changes in subdirectories
• Multiple Sync Methods:
  • FTP upload
  • SFTP upload
  • Rsync synchronization (preserves directory structure)
• Configurable: Uses JSON configuration file stored in the user's home directory
• Graceful Shutdown: Properly cleans up resources on exit
• Ignores CHMOD Events: Avoids unnecessary syncs for permission changes

# Clone the repositorygit clone https://github.com/erkineren/watch-sync.gitcd watch-sync# Build and installmake install

Download the latest binary from thereleases page.

# Watch the current directory with no actionswatch-sync# Watch a specific directorywatch-sync -path /path/to/watch# Watch with specific actions to triggerwatch-sync -actions prod-ftp,staging-sftp# Watch a specific path with specific actionswatch-sync -path /path/to/watch -actions backup-rsync# Watch without recursion (top level only)watch-sync -recursive=false -actions prod-ftp# Enable verbose loggingwatch-sync -verbose -actions backup-rsync

The configuration file is stored at~/.watch-sync.json. If it doesn't exist, a default one will be created.

Example configuration:

{"actions": {"prod-ftp": {"type":"ftp","settings": {"host":"ftp.example.com","port":21,"user":"username","password":"password","remote_dir":"/public_html"      }    },"staging-sftp": {"type":"sftp","settings": {"host":"sftp.example.com","port":22,"user":"username","password":"password","key_file":"/path/to/private_key","remote_dir":"/var/www"      }    },"backup-rsync": {"type":"rsync","settings": {"host":"example.com","user":"username","remote_dir":"/var/www/html","options":"-av --delete"      }    }  },"filters": {"exclude": [".git","node_modules","*.tmp","vendor","*.log"]  }}

With this configuration, you can reference your actions by name when running the command:

watch-sync -actions prod-ftp,staging-sftp

• Fixed rsync path preservation: rsync now correctly preserves directory structure on the remote server
• Ignore CHMOD events: CHMOD events no longer trigger synchronization actions
• Better error handling: Improved error logging and recovery

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see theLICENSE file for details.

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