Package: inotify-hookable
Version: 0.09-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/inotify-hookable
The manpage says:
> **"-i" or "--ignore-paths"**
> Regexes for files/directories to ignore events for. By default this
> is set to regexes for vim and emacs temporary files, "qr{\..*sw.\z}"
> and "qr{\.\#[^/]+\z}" respectively.
>
> The regexes match after any "/" in the path or the beginning of the
> string.
I want to ignore files under `.mypy_cache`, `.ruff_cache`, and
`.pytest_cache`, and so I tried:
```
inotify-hookable -d -w . -i '\..+_cache' -C '.+\.py$=pytest -s'
```
and also every other combination of regexp I could think of, including
the use of `qr{}` and even just `.*`, but none of these seem to have any
effect, leading me to believe that `-i` is broken, or very wrongly
documented.
Thanks for looking into this!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.25-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages inotify-hookable depends on:
ii libclass-inspector-perl 1.36-3
ii libdata-bitmask-perl 1.00-1
ii liblinux-inotify2-perl 1:2.3-2+b3
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii libmoose-perl 2.2207-1+b3
ii libmoosex-getopt-perl 0.78-1
ii libmoosex-types-perl 0.51-4
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.32-1
ii perl 5.40.1-3
inotify-hookable recommends no packages.
inotify-hookable suggests no packages.
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