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One-liner to increase max inotify watches on Ubuntu. This is useful for simultaneously running things like Yeoman/Bower/Grunt and Dropbox which watch for filesystem changes.
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inotify.sh
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1048576 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p
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