Filewatch

Automatically execute command when file is modified

Description

Filewatch listens to all files with a filename that matches a regular expression. It spawns a new goroutine for each file it listens to. Each goroutine loops every second and executes a command if the file is modified.

Installing

• Install Go
• git clone git.nikobojs.com/nikobojs/filewatch
• go build filewatch.go

Run program

• First argument is the regular expression
• The rest of the arguments will be executed when files are modified
• Keyword {fname} can be used for injecting filename into the command
• usage: ./filewatch [regex] [command]
• example: ./filewatch '.+\\.go' go fmt {fname}

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details