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How to automatically launch a shell script when content of a given directory is changed

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Mar 15, 20263503 views
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I'm developing a web project using some libraries that force me to launch a shell command to compile some files everytime i modify them. This task is obviously tiresome and i'm looking to find some script to handle it (I'm on OSX). Is there a way to automatically launch a shell script when content …

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Mac OSX has two filesystem notification APIs: kqueue and FSEvents. I don't know about commands that give you access to them without programming. There is a python binding for FSEvents. See also View Filesystem Access in Real Time on Mac OS X. Given …

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