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Using a shell script, can I watch a folder and block program execution until a file in a certain folder changes?

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[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

a hobby project: generate a rss feed based on recent file changes in a directory. But I thought this can also have many applications …

  • auto formatting code files on change
  • automatic backups of a certain folder: run rsync on change in folder.
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Are you familiar with CI/CD pipelines? You could use Git along with a service like Woodpecker CI or Gitlab Runners.