pushloop

Basically a super-cheap poor-man's-eventloop

Usecase

Cheap imitation plastic daemon for an evented run-action without actually being any of those things

Using

You want tmux or screen for this. Right now screen's hardcoded in the bootstrap, but no reason that can't change. I just don't want to try figure it out now.

It listens on a FIFO, waits for a match condition (grep) and then runs the script you specify. And where that says "listens", it really only means while read line.

Settings

Export these

• MATCH = the match text
• ACTION = the script you want to run
• TIMEOUT = haha, funny
• INPATH = the fifo to read

Assumptions

• That you have bash
• That you use with this with the understanding it's a cheap imitation plastic daemon
• Settings are at ${HOME}/.pushloop
• That you have a modicum of shell skills (because this will probably break)

Name

Get out and push