seacoastboy / fswatch

Watch file change, and then trigger specfied commands. (filter useless changes)

fswatch

A definition of fswatch: Command line tool. Use file system event to trigger user defined commands.

fswatch will follow 3 steps.

1. notify if file under current directory changes.
2. filter event by .gitignore
3. do user defined commands(passed by commands)

How to use

I will show you an example

• Demo Video http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/NMOOE-Lj5Sc/
• Demo video(no voice) http://asciinema.org/a/7247

go get github.com/shxsun/fswatch
# cd to a golang project
# ...
fswatch go test

# open a new shell, cd to the same place
touch test.go

# now fswatch should do some tests. (if nothing happens, tell me)

Shell help

Usage:
  fswatch [OPTIONS] command [args...]

Application Options:
  -v, --verbose  Show verbose debug infomation
      --delay=   Trigger event buffer time (0.5s)
  -d, --depth=   depth of watch (3)
  -e, --ext=     only watch specfied ext file (go,py,c,rb,cpp,cxx,h)
  -p, --path=    watch path, support multi -p

Help Options:
  -h, --help     Show this help message

Friendly link:

• bee
• fsnotify