Show HN: Trigger – run a shell command repeatedly on file changes (github.com)

10 points by sharkdp 10y ago ↗ HN

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I use anacron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron), it's like a cron on file changes.

Do you mean incron? (http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en)

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

sharkdp 10y ago ↗

Interesting, thank you for the information!