A cross-platform file change monitor. More information: <https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch>.

• Run a Bash command on file creation, update or deletion:
  fswatch path/to/file | xargs -n 1 bash_command
• Watch one or more files and/or directories:
  fswatch path/to/file path/to/directory path/to/another_directory/**/*.js | xargs -n 1 bash_command
• Print the absolute paths of the changed files:
  fswatch path/to/directory | xargs -n 1 -I {} echo {}
• Filter by event type:
  fswatch --event Updated|Deleted|Created path/to/directory | xargs -n 1 bash_command

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