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#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1"x = ""x ]; then
cat<<EOF
Watches for changes recursively, then goes on to execute your command
or script. It wait 2.5 minutes between executes. Good for syncing
directories or doing dynamic backups.
by Hydranix
Usage: DetectChanges "[ directory to watch ]" "[ command/script to execute ]" "[optional: time in second between executes]"
EOF
exit 0;
fi
while [ ! -f /tmp/EXITHNx ]; do
sleep 3
inotifywait -r -e create -e delete -e move "${1}" &>/dev/null
XSTA=$?
if [ "$XSTA" = "0" ]; then
eval ${2}
else
touch /tmp/EXITHNx
exit 1
fi
[[ -z ${3} ]] && sleep 150 || sleep ${3}
done
rm -f /tmp/EXITHNx
Unfortunately inotifywait does not work with mounted folders. I wanted to use it in my vagrant box, to copy files from eg. /vagrant/www/ to /var/www/ (which is the document root of apache). Mounting files directly to document root slows down php very much, so I thought this would be a nice idea.
If you change "$@" to "eval $@" you will be able to run several commands.
Example:
onchange.sh "rsync dest orig && notify-send Sucess || notify-send Failure"