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Watch folder and upload to an FTP server

I'm searching for some software that watches a folder and when you change a file it automatically uploads it. I don't like programs that mount a remote dir as a local folder, since they are really ...
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cvs notify setup sending incorrect emails

I have set up mail notification using CVSROOT/notify and CVSROOT/users files. The operating system is AIX 5.3 What I ahve in notify file is a line such as : ALL mail -S "CVS update notification" %s ...
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How can I get gnu watch to run in the background?

If I start a watch command in the background, it stops. Bringing the job to the foreground makes it run again, but I want this to run in the background. $ watch ./do-something.sh & [1] 97673 [1]+ ...
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Extension for Chrome, which tracks changes on web pages

I'm looking for a tool which will periodically (this period should be adjustable) scan a list of web pages for any changes. And alarm me when there is any change (amount of change for the alarm should ...
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Store the output of date and watch command to a file

I am a newbie to linux and I am trying to watch a command and try to log it into a file. I tried watch -t -n 10 "(date '+TIME:%H:%M:%S' ; ps aux | grep "pattern" | wc -l)" >> logfile and am ...
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mac - autokill process if it's using too much memory

On my macbook pro, I've disabled the dynamic_pager, and performance has improved a lot. I did it by running this sudo launchtl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist ...
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Changing terminal size affects the output of grep inside a watch command

If I run a command like: watch "ps -ef | grep '^foo.*bar'" and the matching output line of ps -ef is a long line like foo <lots and lots of text here> bar whether this line is output is ...
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Using the watch command with an argument that contains quotes

I'm trying to get watch to work correct with commands that contain quotes, and the watch man page isn't very detailed about how quotes work. To give a concrete example, how can I run the following ...
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How can I fix a problem with standard error screwing up the output of watch?

Specifically, I am trying to run the following command on both CentOS and Fedora14 (same issue with both) watch sudo jmap -heap 31945 However, there are a few lines of standard error that screw up ...
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Command-line tool to measure how fast a file is growing?

Is there a command-line tool to measure how fast a text file is growing, in units of lines/second? For small-ish files, I can do something with watch and wc -l, but that measures the file anew each ...
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Using watch with pipes

I'd like to run this command: watch -n 1 tail -n 200 log/site_dev.log | grep Doctrine But it does not run, because "I think" that the grep tries to run on the watch instead of the tail... Is there ...
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bash watch command with colors preserved

From man watch: Non-printing characters are stripped from program output. Use "cat -v" as part of the command pipeline if you want to see them. So how do I use cat -v if I want to see the ...
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TV Tuner to record / show multiple channels at the same time

I need a cheap mode to record / watch multiple TV channel at the same time on a single PC. Can anyone recommend me any solution(TV Tuner, Application) that can help me solve this problem?
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How to block website from reading my IP?

I want to watch videos on a website but I can only access my country's version. Whenever I type in say .ca (Canada) instead of .il (Israel), I get redirected to .il. How can I surpass that?