inotify -watch for file to change
Here is a simple command for you. It uses inotify tools. So first you need to install :
sudo yum install inotify-tools
and then you can try something like this:
while true; do inotifywait -r -e modify --exclude=".swp" . && make; done
Here, once the file changes, we are running make, but you can do anything you want.
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