How to

Now that you have the requirements installed, you’re ready to start using the Owl.

The syntax is quit simple. You need just need a Handler and the path that you want to monitor:

python <PATH>/<TO>/owl/watcher.py <PATH>/<TO>/handler.py ~/User/

Quick Example

Owl comes with a hello_world handler which can be used to test and make sure we have everything setup correctly.

assuming I cloned Owl repository in the following path:

/Users/ali.jafargholi/repos/owl

we can find the watcher.py module at the root level and the hello_world.py handler inside the handlers directory. Therefore we can run our watcher using this handler like so:

python /Users/ali.jafargholi/repos/owl/watcher.py /Users/ali.jafargholi/repos/owl/handlers/hello_world.pt .

The above code starts the watcher on the current directory and will print any action in the terminal

Note

If you have owl in your PYTHONPATH you can use -m argument instead of giving the full path to the watcher

python -m watcher handler.py .