inotify-rs
Idiomatic inotify wrapper for the Rust programming language (by hannobraun)
checkexec
CLI tool to conditionally execute commands only when files in a dependency list have been updated. Like `make`, but standalone. (by kurtbuilds)
| inotify-rs | checkexec | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 245 | 80 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.9 | 0.0 | |
| 3 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| ISC License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
inotify-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of inotify-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
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Best way to "watch" files with no daemon running?
If you want to have some long running program that constantly watches the file then there is the inotify crate, but I don't know if there is an async equivalent
checkexec
Posts with mentions or reviews of checkexec.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
You might find checkexec useful to pair with just, it is basically a tool that only does the file-based dependency part of make: https://github.com/kurtbuilds/checkexec
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Just 1.0 released!
If you specifically need the "update if modified" functionality from Make, I actually made a command specifically for this called checkexec. I use it for image processing, building C libraries, building CSS files, and a few other use cases. It saves meaningful time on repeated execution runs.
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Best way to "watch" files with no daemon running?
Are you just trying to look at file modified time stamps? checkexec might be what you’re after.
- checkexec: a CLI tool to conditionally execute commands only when files in a dependency list have changed
What are some alternatives?
When comparing inotify-rs and checkexec you can also consider the following projects:
rust-iptables - Rust bindings for iptables
just - 🤖 Just a command runner