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# Watch directory for changes
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Watching directory for changes can be useful for example let's say you have a markdown based knowledgebase and want to automagically rebuild statically served html-site. Like this one right here!
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## Script
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Use #bash and make a fancy scriptie using `inotify-tools`. This can be installed from debian repos using `sudo apt install inotify-tools`. For example this #mkdocs site uses following at the time of writing:
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``` sh
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#!/bin/sh
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. bin/activate
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while true
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do
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mkdocs build
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inotifywait -r dokut
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done
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```
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Main takes here are the infinite loop that rebuilds docs and then waits for any change in directory (recursively) before looping again. Here would also be a good place to setup some `sleep`ing to ratelimit things or a more complex script to even wait no more changes are detected for some time...
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