Script to watch a directory for changes.

watch.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Usage: ./watch.sh watch_id path_to_watch

touch "/tmp/watch_${1}_1"
ls -x > "/tmp/watch_${1}_2"
cat "/tmp/watch_${1}_1" "/tmp/watch_${1}_2" | sort | uniq
mv "/tmp/watch_${1}_2" "/tmp/watch_${1}_1"

thanks!

#!/bin/bash
monitor() {
inotifywait -m ~ -e close export.dsv |
while read path action file; do
awk '{print "|"$0"|">"newexport.dsv"}' export.dsv;
done
}

monitor &

Nice. That is much better. :)