diff --git a/utils/watchrun.sh b/utils/watchrun.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..bd3d7fbc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/watchrun.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+FILENAME=$1
+STARTSCRIPT=$2
+STOPSCRIPT=$3
+
+touch "$FILENAME"
+
+$STARTSCRIPT &
+
+while [ -e "$FILENAME" ] ; do
+  inotifywait -e ATTRIB -t 10 "$FILENAME" > /dev/null 2&>/dev/null
+done
+
+kill %1
+
+$STOPSCRIPT
+