Is there something that monitors your code as you're working and re-executes it on the command line every time it notices a change?

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  • inotify-tools

    inotify-tools is a C library and a set of command-line programs providing a simple interface to inotify.

    • inotify-tools should be able to help, you can use inotifywait to watch for file system changes in a directory and run a command when something changes.

  • 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.

    • I had good luck with fswatch last time I did something like this. Same principle as what /u/balloonanimalfarm links, but it's cross-platform. It also uses the inotify API on linux, but others on different OSes.

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