Are there any CLIs or good ways on macOS to real-time / continuously sync two folders on the same drive?

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event-notifications change-monitor Fswatch Kqueue Inotify

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  • unison

    Unison file synchronizer (by bcpierce00)

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  • fswatch

    A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.

    • If you don’t mind shell shell scripting you can use something like fswatch and some shell logic to do something similar.

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