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Show HN: Trigger – run a shell command repeatedly on file changes

• jusob 10y ago
  I use anacron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron), it's like a cron on file changes.
  • grafelic 10y ago
    Do you mean incron? (http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en)
    • sharkdp 10y ago
      That's probably it. I was trying to figure out if anacron could really handle file system changes ;-). Thanks for the link. It looks like it is bit more complicated to set up and rather suited for permanently running tasks.
• iamtew 10y ago
  For people who are interested in doing these kind of things on other systems than Linux, check out fswatch, it's cross platform: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch
  • sharkdp 10y ago
    Interesting, thank you for the information!