Neil Shepperd <[email protected]> writes:

> You can have rules without any outputs in tup. eg:
>
> foreach *.pdf |> dosomething %f |>
>
> `dosomething` will be re-run whenever its input changes.

That would open the pdf viewer for all changed pdf files.  But the idea
of a no-output rule might be useful in other ways, and I'll keep it in
my toolkit.

> I'm not sure how well this would work with an interactive program
> like a pdf viewer though, since it will be started in tup's
> "special" environment (chroot or whatever).

I found that it worked once I put 'export DISPLAY' before the rule.

-Sanjoy

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