fswatch

fswatch

fswatch is a command tool. Use file system event to trigger user defined commands.

I reviewed the first version of fswatch(which was taged 0.1). The code I look now is shit. So I deleted almost 80% code, And left some very useful functions.

This version is works fine on mac and linux. (Support windows now)

Install

go get github.com/codeskyblue/fswatch

How to use

fswatch (default)monitor files which match regex: \\.(go|py|php|java|cpp|h|rb)$. This is regex can be modified through .fswatch.json file, we talk about that later.

This easiest way to use fswatch is run command:

fswatch ls
# open a new terminal (make sure the workdir some as the previos terminal)
touch hello.go
# some thing should happens

Now it's time to talk about the .fswatch.json file. The file can be created by

fswatch 
# then press y when prompt occurs

modify .fswatch.json. and run fswatch again. Enjoy your time.

Other

• fswatch kill all process when restart. (mac and linux killed by pgid, windows by taskkill)
• Ctrl+C will trigger fswatch quit and kill all process it started.

auto test golang code

fswatch go test -v

Chinese Blog: http://my.oschina.net/goskyblue/blog/194240

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