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mpapi / whenever.sh
Last active March 14, 2023 12:46
A simple shell script that uses inotify in Linux to run shell commands whenever files matching a pattern are changed.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Usage: whenever.sh [pattern] [command]
#
# Executes a command whenever files matching the pattern are closed in write
# mode. "{}" in the command is replaced with the matching filename (via xargs).
# Requires inotifywait from inotify-tools.
#
# For example,