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Simple watch scripts; one for Linux that uses inotifytools, one for Mac that uses fswatch. On file change, concat.sh is run and concatenates listed files.
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simple_watch_scripts.sh
# concat.sh
cat \
file1 \
file3 \
> file3
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watch-mac.sh
fswatch -o file1 \
file2 \
| xargs -n1 sh concat.sh;
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watch.sh
while inotifywait -e close_write \
file1 \
file2 \
do sh concat.sh; done;
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