Audits a directory and logs changes. It is a copy & paste of Watchdog's example: http://pythonhosted.org//watchdog/quickstart.html#a-simple-example. Requirements: Python 2.6+, Watchdog (pip install watchdog). Installation: add audit-dir to your PATH and make it executable (chmod +x audit-dir). Usage: cd to the dir you want to audit and run audit…

audit-dir

#!/usr/bin/python

# Example output:
#
# 2015-03-02 14:23:57 - Created directory: ./test
# 2015-03-02 14:23:57 - Modified directory: .
# 2015-03-02 14:25:21 - Created file: ./test/a.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:25:21 - Modified directory: ./test
# 2015-03-02 14:25:21 - Modified file: ./test/a.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:25:41 - Moved file: from ./test/a.txt to ./test/b.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:25:41 - Modified directory: ./test
# 2015-03-02 14:26:05 - Modified file: ./test/b.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:26:17 - Created file: ./test/c.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:26:17 - Modified directory: ./test
# 2015-03-02 14:26:17 - Modified file: ./test/c.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:26:24 - Deleted file: ./test/c.txt
# 2015-03-02 14:26:24 - Modified directory: ./test

import sys
import time
import logging
from watchdog.observers import Observer
from watchdog.events import LoggingEventHandler

if __name__ == "__main__":
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
                        format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
                        datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    path = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else '.'
    event_handler = LoggingEventHandler()
    observer = Observer()
    observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)
    observer.start()
    try:
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        observer.stop()
    observer.join()