Automatically running a command whenever a file is saved

[lenni]

http://lenni.info/blog/2010/10/running-an-arbitrary-command-whenever-a-file-in-the-current-directory-is-saved/

[mthomas]

I notice that you're using a polling thread keep track of modification times. I know that linux has inotify: http://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify and OsX has something similar with FSEvents: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MacFSEvents

[shabble]

I quite like http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/File-ChangeNotify-0.17/lib/F... for perl. It's cross-platform (backends for linux, OSX/BSD and Win32 afaik), and is very straightforward to use.

[lenni → shabble]

Oh great, I looked around but haven't found anything like it.

[zacharydanger]

Sounds like incron. Which is just a cron-like interface for inotify.