fswatcher

fawatcher is an useful cross-platform command tool which will trigger the user's specified command when the watched files and pathes change. Thanks for the awesome library written in Go fsnotify.

Requirements

Go 1.18 or newer.

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/qshuai/fswatcher.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/qshuai/fswatcher
cd GOPATH/src/github.com/qshuai/fswatcher
go mod download
# please ensure the $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH environment
go install

Usage:

> fswatcher --help
fswatcher watches the specified files or directories, and any changing event will trigger the user's command

Usage:
  fswatcher [flags]

Examples:
fswatcher -c 'echo ***' /tmp/foo

Flags:
  -c, --command string    the command to execute when change event notified
  -h, --help              help for fswatcher
  -i, --ignore strings    comma separated list of files and paths to ignore
  -v, --interval string   the user command only executes once during an interval, 0 represents every event will trigger the execution of user's command
  -n, --notify            enable system notify while event triggered (NOT IMPLEMENT)
  -r, --recursive         watch folders recursively (default true)
      --version           version for fswatcher

Example:

fswatcher -c "git add . && git commit -m 'update' && git push origin master" .