Re: Bug#706458: ITP: inotify-hookable -- blocking command-line interface to inotify
On Thursday 02 May 2013 11:29:58 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> How is that better than the existing inotify shell tools? What do they
> lack and why not improve them instead of writing a new one?
inotify-hookable main advantage over inotywait are:
- you can specify command to run after watch as option.
- watch are restarted
- when watching a directory, inotify-hookable ignore emacs
and backup files by default.
- you can specify different commands to run depending on which
files was changed
inotifywait is better suited to be used within a shell script.
inotify-hookable is better when you just want to run something on the command
line.
I currently use the following command to compile a bunch of less files into a
css file. The css file and the less file are located in the same directory:
inotify-hookable -w . -i '.*css$' -c '../../enyo/tools/lessc.sh ./package.js'
HTH
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