Fswatch observing folder for new files error from the example doc

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12/13/23, 9:50 PM

I am trying to "listen in" on changes in a particular folder, then once a file comes in, I want to copy the file to another folder. I figured fswatch would be a great choice for this.

And as I'm reading through the official documentation of fswatch and I see this snippet of code:

fswatch -0 path | while read -d "" event \
  do \
    // do something with ${event}
  done

I convert it to my folder and to print info about the event like so:

fswatch -0 '/home/ubuntu' | while read -d "" event \
  do \
    echo "WOOOW ${event}"
  done

And I got this error -bash: syntax error near unexpected token done'`, anyone has suggestion how can I make this work?

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Cyrus

12/15/23, 12:27 AM

do must be preceded by a line break or a ;.

I suggest to remove \ after event.

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