Determine type of file action

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, r
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

The issue names no files or tests, so start by reading the watcher package API and its filesystem-event handling. Trace how file changes are currently reported, then determine how created, changed, deleted, and renamed events could be distinguished; done means callers can select different actions for those event types.

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Description

feature

Thanks for this great package! I have previously used powershell (FileSystemWatcher), however this package works much easier. The powershell solution I used before did however have the option to perform different actions based on the type of change. For instance a different function can be called in case a file is changed, created, deleted or renamed.
I was wondering if something similar could be achieved with this package as well? I can find out what happened manually, based on the name of the file. But would be nice if there is a more elegant solution.

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