inotifywait - exclude regex pattern formatting

Question

I am trying to use inotifywait to watch all .js files under my ~/js directory; how do I format my regex inside the follow

Answer 1

I posted a patch here that adds --include and --includei options that work like negations of --exclude and --excludei:

https://github.com/browndav/inotify-tools/commit/160bc09c7b8e78493e55fc9f071d0c5575496429

Obviously you'd have to rebuild inotifytools, and this is relatively untested, but hopefully it can make it in to mainline or is helpful to someone who comes across this post later.