mirror files from one place to another while you're working on them (e.g., plugin development with live testing on a site using it)

watchmirror.sh

#!/bin/bash

CMD="notifyloop"

function show_help() {
    echo "$0 [SRC] DEST"
    echo " SRC and DEST are anything recognizable to rsync"
    echo " if unspecified, SRC is pwd"
}

command -v $CMD >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
    echo >&2 "I require notifyloop but it's not installed. Try 'brew install fsevents-tools'."
    exit 1
}

if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
    SRC=$1
    DEST=$2
elif [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
    SRC="$( pwd )/"
    DEST=$1
else
    show_help
    exit 1
fi

echo "Syncing $SRC to $DEST. Control-c to break."
notifyloop . rsync -avz --exclude=".git" $SRC $DEST