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MacOs: Monitor new files, announce events, add new files to Yoink
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Monitor new files on a folder
This didn't work with fswatch, but chokidar with poll monitor was fine:
`chokidar '*.json' -p --poll-interval 1000 -c 'say "{event}" && open -a Yoink {path}'`
I was using this to debug a HTTP server that generated log files every X minutes, so I didn't have to keep checking the terminal.
Another useful idea is to send results of a script to yourself via [Telegram](https://github.com/fabianonline/telegram.sh):
`chokidar '*.json' -p --poll-interval 1000 -c 'check_file.sh {path} | telegram -'`
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