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rclone
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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age
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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fswatch
A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple macOS File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify and fanotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
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prek
âš¡ A fast Git hook manager written in Rust, designed as a drop-in alternative to pre-commit, reimagined.
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better watchexec alternative or higher similarity.
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Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?
You might be interested in:
https://github.com/cantino/mcfly - fuzzy shell history (feels lighter than atuin to me, in rust)
https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec - rerun on file change, knows about .gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust)
https://github.com/jonas/tig - instead of lazygit, mostly for easier git log viewing for me as I use straight git most of the time
Otherwise a lot of crossover in what I use too.
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Prek: A better, faster, and drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
Yep, I think a watcher is better suited [0] to trigger on file changes.
I personally can't stand my git commit command to be slow or to fail.
[0]: such as https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
- Watchfiles: Simple, modern and fast file watching for Python, written in Rust
- Watchexec: Execute commands in response to file modifications
- Watchexec
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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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