A script that uses inotiftwait to look for changes in all files with given extension, and run specifed command. Useful for compiling LaTeX.

gistfile1.sh

onchangerecur  . 'pdflatex -interaction batchmode thesis.tex' .tex

onchangerecur

#!/bin/sh                                                                                                               
PLACE="$1"
COMMAND="$2"
EXT="$3"

inotifywait -rqme CLOSE_WRITE --format '%f' $PLACE | while read f;
do
if echo "$f" | grep $EXT$; then
    sh -c "$COMMAND"
fi
done