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entr is great to restart a process when files changes, but it's not able to give you the name of the file that changed or was added to a folder: it gives the first file in the folder that was modified, which is not useful

MrE
– MrE

2022-02-11 01:59:38 +00:00
Commented Feb 11, 2022 at 1:59
> which is not useful The modification of one file might indicate that the whole directory might have changed, and this is sufficient for many use cases on the whole set of files.

Jay-Pi
– Jay-Pi

2022-09-13 13:33:37 +00:00
Commented Sep 13, 2022 at 13:33

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