Software development often involves running the same commands over and over. Watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.

Features

  • Automatically run unit tests
  • Run linters/syntax checkers
  • Rebuild artifacts
  • Simple invocation and use, does not require a cryptic command line involving xargs
  • Runs on OS X, Linux, and Windows
  • Monitors current directory and all subdirectories for changes
  • Coalesces multiple filesystem events into one, for editors that use swap/backup files during saving
  • Uses process groups to keep hold of forking programs
  • Provides the paths that changed in environment variables or STDIN

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License

Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Rust

Related Categories

Rust Command Line Tools

Registered

2024-06-12