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Watch paths recursively for changes

This simple example watches your Hammerspoon directory for changes, and when it sees a change, reloads your configs:

local myWatcher = hs.pathwatcher.new(os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.hammerspoon/", hs.reload):start()

This module is based primarily on code from the previous incarnation of Mjolnir by Steven Degutis.

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Signature	`hs.pathwatcher.new(path, fn) -> watcher`
Type	Constructor
Description	Creates a new path watcher object
Parameters	path - A string containing the path to be watched fn - A function to be called when changes are detected. It should accept two arguments: `paths`: a table containing a list of file paths that have changed `flagTables`: a table containing a list of tables denoting how each corresponding file in `paths` has changed, each containing boolean values indicating which types of events occurred; The possible keys are: mustScanSubDirs userDropped kernelDropped eventIdsWrapped historyDone rootChanged mount unmount itemCreated itemRemoved itemInodeMetaMod itemRenamed itemModified itemFinderInfoMod itemChangeOwner itemXattrMod itemIsFile itemIsDir itemIsSymlink ownEvent (OS X 10.9+) itemIsHardlink (OS X 10.10+) itemIsLastHardlink (OS X 10.10+)
Returns	An `hs.pathwatcher` object
Notes	For more information about the event flags, see the official documentation