rsync-watch

Watch a local path and sync to another location (for example a remote host on the network) via rsync.

Useful for developing on one machine while running the application on another one.

Requirements

• rsync has to be installed on both machines
• fswatch has to be installed on local machine

Installation

1. Clone repo
2. Create a symlink in a directory that is part of $PATH. For example in /usr/local/bin and give it an alias for example rsync-watch

Usage

rsync-watch SOURCE DESTINATION [OPTIONS]

Options

• --exclude comma-separated list of paths to ignore. This option will get passed to rsync and fswatch.

Usage Example

rsync-watch my-app-folder 192.168.1.1::desktop --exclude=my-app-folder/node_modules,my-app-folder/.env

This will sync the local folder my-app-folder to a remote host in the local network with a virtual directory or module called desktop while ignoring all files in the node_modules folder and the environment file.