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copied!<p>I absolutely love the <a href="http://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_keep_up_to_date" rel="noreferrer">Keep Remote Directory Up-to-date</a> feature in <a href="http://winscp.net/" rel="noreferrer">Winscp</a>. Unfortunately, I can't find anything as simple to use in OS X or Linux. I know the same thing can <em>theoretically</em> be accomplished using <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/changedfiles/" rel="noreferrer">changedfiles</a> or <a href="http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/" rel="noreferrer">rsync</a>, but I've always found the tutorials for both tools to be lacking and/or contradictory. </p> <p>I basically just need a tool that works in OSX or Linux and keeps a remote directory in sync (mirrored) with a local directory while I make changes to the local directory.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>Looking through the solutions, I see a couple which solve the general problem of keeping a remote directory in sync with a local directory <em>manually</em>. I know that I can set a cron task to run rsync every minute, and this should be fairly close to real time. </p> <p>This is not the exact solution I was looking for as winscp does this and more: it detects file changes in a directory (while I work on them) and then automatically pushes the changes to the remote server. I know this is not the best solution (no code repository), but it allows me to very quickly test code on a server while I develop it. Does anyone know how to combine rsync with any other commands to get this functionality?</p>

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