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Show HN: Execute a shell command each time a given file or directory changes

https://github.com/Dinduks/change-execute-loop

8 comments

shabblehá 13 anos

I'm sure I've seen a nicely crossplatform command-line tool for this, but I can't seem to find it. The closest (by support for non-poll APIs) seems to be 'simplefilewatcher'[1], but that's just a C++ library.

incron, inotify, filewatcher[2], puncher[3], guard[4] are a bunch of existing ones, but they're all either not entirely functional cross-platform, or require some faffing with dependencies to get working.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/simplefilewatcher/

[2] https://github.com/thomasfl/filewatcher

[3] http://rawsyntax.com/blog/puncher-the-simple-file-watcher-fo...

[4] https://github.com/guard/guard

[deleted]há 13 anos

kseistruphá 13 anos

I'm aware that it's beyond the scope of cel, but I'd use incron anyday for jobs like this.

stephenrhá 13 anos

A better approach surely would be to wrap inotify/osx fsevents

lotsofcowshá 13 anos

That's what incron does...

stephenrhá 13 anos

On Linux yes, it doesn't exist on osx though. My point was that the author could have written his tool as cross platform without relying on an 'ls' every 100ms, by using the platform tools availble

dindukshá 13 anos

Inotify is specific to Linux, while CEL isn't OS dependent.

osthhá 13 anos

Except if you account for the fact that some other UNIX-like OS do not use bash as /bin/sh.

You could even say that using bash as /bin/sh "is specific to Linux."

How to fix: /#!\/bin\/bash/s/bash/sh/