Watch VS watchexec

Compare Watch vs watchexec and see what are their differences.

Watch

Watches for changes in a directory tree and reruns a command in an acme win or just on the terminal. (by eaburns)
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Watch watchexec
1 19
202 4,825
- 3.6%
0.7 8.6
about 1 year ago 5 days ago
Go Rust
- Apache License 2.0
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Watch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Watch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-05.

watchexec

Posts with mentions or reviews of watchexec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Watch and watchexec you can also consider the following projects:

GNU/Emacs go-mode - Emacs mode for the Go programming language

entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change

go-plus - An Enhanced Go Experience For The Atom Editor

watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

vim-compiler-go - Vim compiler plugin for Go (golang)

fswatch - A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.

vim-go - Go development plugin for Vim

systemd-manager

GoSublime - A Golang plugin collection for SublimeText 3, providing code completion and other IDE-like features.

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

go-language-server - A Go language server.

coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils