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watchexec | snatch | |
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19 | 0 | |
4,730 | 674 | |
3.2% | 0.1% | |
8.6 | 0.0 | |
10 days ago | over 6 years ago | |
Rust | Rust | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
- Sync files all ways across several specific folders
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checkexec: a CLI tool to conditionally execute commands only when files in a dependency list have changed
Thanks for your work ! How would you compare it to Watchexec ?
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What are some alternatives?
entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change
watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.
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.
systemd-manager
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
concurr - Performs distributed command execution, written in Rust w/ Tokio
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
rrun - minimalistic command launcher in rust
fontfinder - GTK application for browsing and installing fonts from Google's font archive
logram - Utility that takes logs from anywhere and sends them to Telegram.