watchexec
Executes commands in response to file modifications (by watchexec)
nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager (by jarun)
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| watchexec | nnn | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 200 | |
| 4,825 | 18,136 | |
| 3.6% | - | |
| 8.6 | 8.1 | |
| 3 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Rust | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" 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.
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.
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Watchexec ignore directory?
Hi, I am using Watchexec (https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec/releases) to monitor folder changes, but I want to exclude some folders. What parameter should I use to perform the route exclusions?
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How to automatically extract all zip files downloaded to certain directory?
Use https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
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My first actual Rust program: Cloak, a simple app to search and watch directories to automatically hide files and directories
There's something similar to this called watchexec, which you can have a look at https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
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Turbowatch – Extremely fast alternative to Nodemon
Or use watchexec which will do 95% of what you need and you're not tied to nodejs.
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What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
watchexec
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is there a plugin to run any file (.py .js .java etc.) and display the output?
I use watchexec to automatically run the code when saved, you should customise this to your liking.
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[Paid Bounty-$20 in Bitcoin!] Persistent - Watchfolder() dir, if files contains word "apple" in name, make file Read only.
OTOH PowerShell will not keep watching and is one of the requirements. In the past I've successfully used watchexecrepo and inotifywaitrepo.
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How to automatically run a command when directory updates?
I prefer watchexec as it's cross-platform.
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What is the most underrated tool you encountered ?
Not specifically for frontend but a handy tool for quickly setting up auto-runners, auto-testers, auto-linters, auto-formattere etc etc. watchexec
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Entr: Rerun your build when files change
I’ve been a happy user of watchexec[0] for the past few months but Entr seems cool.
nnn
Posts with mentions or reviews of nnn.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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Directory navigation on Helix
If you want a file full browser experience choose nnn: https://github.com/jarun/nnn . If you have a desktop file for Helix you can use the Gnome Files program to make all your programming language files open in Helix.
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Help compiling a package with a compiler flag from an official Debian source
The other option is to just download the static version https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/download/v4.9/nnn-nerd-static-4.9.x86_64.tar.gz and overwrite the Debian executable at /usr/bin/nnn, but this seems a bit hacky, agreed?
- Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
- Ytree; a Unix Filemanager
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How do I change default image and video interpreter program through environment variables for nnn file manager ? (Asking herre bc r/linuxquestions doesnt allow posts)
You can get the 'default' nuke plugin script from https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/plugins/nuke and customize it if you need to. You define files by extension or mime type and set default and fallback apps to be opened with.
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What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?
I like nnn ( n3 ).
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Can't figure out how to change icon theme in nnn
The icon-theme seems to be driven by your terminal font as detailed in `src/icons-in-terminal.h & icons.h, and the choice of "terminal-icon vs nerd-fonts vs emoji" appear to be hard-wired at compile-time rather than at run-time.
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What's a really niche tool you use that you can't live without?
nnn
- [Command Line] Quel gestionnaire de fichiers préférez-vous dans la CLI?
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nnn file manager with icons
git clone https://github.com/jarun/nnn cd nnn make O_NERD=1
What are some alternatives?
When comparing watchexec and nnn you can also consider the following projects:
entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change
ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.
lf - Terminal file manager
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.
vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
systemd-manager
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
mc - Midnight Commander's repository