Simple command to monitor directory changes on Mac

Sometimes you want to know if a certain App/code/IDE changed something on the disk, this little script / command may come in handy.

Install fswatch

install fswatch as a global command

1	brew install fswatch

Only fswatch is not enough, here is the script that does the trick

#!/bin/bash

fswatch -0 $@ | while read -d "" event; \

do \

echo ${event};

done

Save as a script e.g. monitor.sh, then give it executable permission

1	chmod +x monitor.sh

Now run the script and supply the path as parameter, and you will start monitoring the directory

1	./monitor.sh path/to/direcory

Enjoy!