watchfs

WatchFS

WatchFS is a tool that monitors file system for changes and runs specified command after the change.

Install

The tool can be installed using "go get" command:

  $ go get -u github.com/igm/watchfs

Usage

Simple notification after any change on the file system:

  $ watchfs echo "change!!!"

As the original purpose of this tool was to execute go tests automatically after the source code change the format to filter notification for *.go files can following:

  $ watchfs -f "\.go$" go test 

To specify a different time wait period after a change (or set of changes) occurs use timeout parameter:

  $ watchfs -t 250ms go test

For the full ist of available parameters and the defaults run command without any parameters:

  $ watchfs

Limitations

Current version supports shallow directory monitoring only. Recursive file system monitoring is not supported.

Timeout

Usually file system emits several various events when editing a file in a editor. For that purpose timeout parameter defines how long to wait before executing the command. The wait period starts again after any filesystem event.