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Script to watch a directory for changes.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Usage: ./watch.sh watch_id path_to_watch | |
| touch "/tmp/watch_${1}_1" | |
| ls -x > "/tmp/watch_${1}_2" | |
| cat "/tmp/watch_${1}_1" "/tmp/watch_${1}_2" | sort | uniq | |
| mv "/tmp/watch_${1}_2" "/tmp/watch_${1}_1" |
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Nice. That is much better. :)