Alternatives to inotify-tools
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. inotify-tools itself: install inotify-tools.
jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. Thi
curl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LD
python-tabulate
Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line utility. Repository migrated from bitbucket.org/astanin/python-tabulate
sourcekitten
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yamlfmt
An extensible command line tool or library to format yaml files
sha1dc
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twarc
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adr-tools
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liburing
Library providing helpers for the Linux kernel io_uring support
mitie
MITIE: library and tools for information extraction
betty
Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty
ghidra
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework
fabric-ai
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leveldb
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
lux
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folly
An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook
vegeta
HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!
age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability
catch2
A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Cat
libphonenumber
Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers
katana
A next-generation crawling and spidering framework
awscli
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
autojump
A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
monolith
⬛️ CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than inotify-tools — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
inotify-tools is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.