baywatch

Watch files and execute commands if they change.

Usage

$ bwatch --help

Simplest example:

$ bwatch -- ls -lah

Assumptions

• simple codebase and usage
• sane defaults
  • using local gitignore properly
  • ignores change events that happened since starting the scheduled command (not running tests 10 times if files changed 10 times)
  • streams stdout and stderr
• tested and used only on Linux and Darwin, may or may not work on Windows

Known problems

• on linux, using Neovim, when saving a file it gets deleted and recreated. This makes it impossible to track concrete files (via --path argument). It's advised instead to track whole folders.

Installation

$ cargo install --locked baywatch

or

Use the provided package via flake

or

$ nix build

or

$ nix run

Similar to

• watchexec