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I see in the documents for fswatch it has $ fswatch -0 [opts] [paths] | xargs -0 -n 1 -I {} [command] but I don't really understand how I'm supposed to add multiple paths to that - I'm watching two paths lib and test. I've tried: fswatch -r lib,test, fswatch -r lib test, and finally fswatch -r [lib test] How do I watch multiple paths with fswatch at the same time?

Jono
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Separate the paths with a space (i.e. ' ')

For example:

fswatch "path/one" "path/two" echo "whatever"
Alan W. Smith
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mikhuang
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The only possibility I found is to execute the fswatch command multiple times:

do_backup() {
    // what you want to do
    rsync -ahhvzPR --delete $FILE $BACKUP_DIR
}

fswatch -r lib | while read FILE; do
    do_backup
done &

fswatch -r test | while read FILE; do
    do_backup
done &

This will start the process for both directories in detached mode.

More about the detached mode can be found here.

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KittMedia
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just use "," among the multi path.

lilclimate
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