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I used to do that using the macOS builtin Folder Actions. People forget these exist. Pure GUI.

I had no idea this was a thing: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...

Definitely saving it for further use, I sometimes need to have small invisible watchers and I don't want a full fledged app or shell scripts for that.

That guide seems like an extremely roundabout way of doing things. Just open Automator and use the GUI.

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