Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Automating Everything in Linux with ENTR!" video.

  1. Instead of echo «something» | «cmd» how about «cmd» <<EOD «something» EOD (should work with any POSIX-compliant shell), or «cmd» <<<«something» (bash-specific).
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  2. The key problem with this kind of tool is there is no Unix/POSIX standard for notification of filesystem events. Linux has its own inotify and fanotify systems, other OSes have different ones or none at all, forcing you to resort to periodic polling to notice changes.
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