This shellscript watches coffee files for changes and compiles them and runs docco after

coffee_watcher

#!/bin/sh
# use my inotify-tools fork at https://github.com/thelinuxlich/inotify-tools
# use my docco fork if you want to generate php documentation(npm install thelinuxlich-docco)
while output=`inotifywait -r -e create -e close_write -e modify --format '%w %f' --include ".*\.(coffee|php)$" /srv/www/htdocs/php/`; do
        DIR=${output%% *}
        DOCDIR=${DIR/php\//php\/docs/}
        FILE=${output#* }
        echo "Detected a change in ${DIR}${FILE} ..." >> /srv/www/htdocs/php/logs/watcher.log
        if [[ $FILE == *.coffee* ]]
        then
                COFFEEDIR="${DIR}${FILE}"
                JSDIR="${DIR/coffee/js/}"
                mkdir -p $JSDIR
                echo "Compiling JS from ${COFFEEDIR} to ${JSDIR}..."  >> /srv/www/htdocs/php/logs/watcher.log
                coffee -o $JSDIR -c ${COFFEEDIR} 2>> /srv/www/htdocs/php/logs/watcher.log
        fi;
        DOCCOFILE=${DIR}doc_${FILE}
        cp ${DIR}${FILE} ${DOCCOFILE}
        echo "Generating documentation of ${DOCCOFILE}..." >> /srv/www/htdocs/php/logs/watcher.log
        if [[ `file -i ${DIR}${FILE}` != *utf-8* ]]
        then
                iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 ${DIR}${FILE} > $DOCCOFILE
        fi
        docco ${DOCCOFILE} >> /srv/www/htdocs/php/logs/watcher.log
        rm -f $DOCCOFILE
        mkdir -p $DOCDIR
        mv -f /srv/www/htdocs/php/sh/docs/* $DOCDIR
done