use fswatch to scp changed files to remote host

fswatch-scp.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

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watch_dir="$1"
target="$2"
self=$(basename $0)

if ! command -v fswatch >/dev/null ; then
  echo "Please install the fswatch program."
  echo "See http://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/"
  exit 2
fi

if [ -z "$target" ]; then
  echo "usage: $self <watch-dir> <target>"
  echo "  watch-dir: path to a local directory to watch"
  echo "  target:    an scp target specification, e.g."
  echo "             user@host.domain:/var/tmp"
  exit 1
fi

upload() {
  target_path=${1/$watch_dir/""}
  target_path=${target_path#/}
  echo "=> $target_path"
  scp "$1" "${target%/}/${target_path}"
}

echo "watching: $watch_dir"
echo "target:   $target"
echo "press ctrl+c to quit"
echo
fswatch -e '.git/' -e "$self" . | while read f; do upload "$f"; done

Thanks! how would I exclude files/directories?

Just realised it's the -e param used at the bottom row. Aliased for --exclude.