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#watchexec
Software development often involves running the same commands over and over. Boring!
watchexec
is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.
Example use cases:
- Automatically run unit tests
- Run linters/syntax checkers
##Status
Beta: CLI arguments stabilizing
##Features
- Simple invocation and use
- Runs on OS X, Linux and Windows
- Monitors path specified on command line for changes
- Uses most efficient event polling mechanism for your platform (except for BSD)
- Coalesces multiple filesystem events into one, for editors that use swap/backup files during saving
- Support for watching files with a specific extension
- Support for filtering/ignoring events based on glob patterns
- Optionally clears screen between executions
- Does not require a language runtime
- Small (~100 LOC)
##Anti-Features
- Not tied to any particular language or ecosystem
- Does not require a cryptic command line involving
xargs
##Usage Examples
Watch all JavaScript, CSS and HTML files in the current directory and all subdirectories for changes, running make
when a change is detected:
$ watchexec --exts js,css,html make
Watch all files below src
and subdirectories for changes, running make test
when a change is detected:
$ watchexec --watch src make test
Call make test
when any file changes in this directory/subdirectory, except for everything below target
:
$ watchexec -i target make
##Installation
###OS X with Homebrew
$ brew install mattgreen/watchexec/watchexec
##Credits
- notify for doing most of the heavy-lifting