How do I get the filename from inotifywait events?

The cleaner way is illustrated in this blog entry:

inotifywait -m -r -q --format '%w' bootstrap/ | while read FILE
do
  echo "something happened on path $FILE"
done

Turns out I just needed to restructure the while so that I captured the output of inotifywait:

while true; do
    echo "something happened"
    filename=$(inotifywait -r -q --format %w bootstrap/)
    [[ $filename == *.js ]] && uglifyjs .....
    [[ $filename == *.less ]] && lessc bootstrap.less
done

I'm still curious to know if there are cleaner ways of doing this.

How do I get the filename from inotifywait events?

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