How to automatically compile LESS into CSS on the server?

Question

Friend designer of mine was compiling his LESS file manually and uploading it with Coda (Remote Site) spending lots of precious time. He asked me:

Is it possible to aut

Answer 1

i'd like the bash script but I had some trouble using it with sublime wthin ubuntu 12.10 . well, the scripts did the same Ian_Marcinkowski does, but I am sure it keeps working after first event, and monitor all files (sublime text someway, use a tmp file, and do not change the original one - !?!).

#!/bin/bash
# Detect changes in .less file and automatically compile into .css
[ "$2" ] || { echo "Specify both .less and .css files"; exit 1; }
inotifywait -m -e close_write . | while read x op f; do
    echo $f
    echo "Change detected. Recompiling...";
    lessc $2 > $3 && echo "`date`: COMPILED";
done

call the script like :

./monitor.sh