getting sick of stopping your server and hitting sails www when adding new files? Bash to the rescue. Put this in your root folder and run it : $./autorun 60 sudo sails www

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#!/bin/bash
#usage ./autorun 60 sudo sails www

function show_help()
{
  echo ""
  echo "usage: watch [sleep duration in seconds] [command]"
  echo ""
  echo "e.g. To cat a file every second, run the following"
  echo ""
  echo "     watch 1 cat /tmp/it.txt"
  exit;
}

function show_help_if_required()
{
  if [ "$1" == "help" ]
  then
      show_help
  fi
  if [ -z "$1" ]
    then
      show_help
  fi
}

function require_numeric_value()
{
  REG_EX='^[0-9]+$'
  if ! [[ $1 =~ $REG_EX ]] ; then
    show_help
  fi
}

show_help_if_required $1
require_numeric_value $1

DURATION=$1
shift

while :; do
  echo "Updating every $DURATION seconds. Last updated $(date)"
  bash -c "$*"
  sleep $DURATION
done