https://github.com/iamfirecracker/onchange

Bash script enabling users to execute programs on changes on the current directory
https://github.com/iamfirecracker/onchange

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Bash script enabling users to execute programs on changes on the current directory

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/iamfirecracker/onchange
• Owner: iamFIREcracker
• Created: 2011-11-15T09:23:58.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-01-03T10:20:18.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-10T23:52:45.881Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 93.8 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst

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onchange

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onchange is a simple shell script (written in bash) which enables users to

listen on changes on the current directory and eventually execute commands as

soon as such events are received.

Dependencies

============

The script works both on Linux and FreeBSD systems (I don't have a Mac to test

on it) but has a couple of dependencies:

* ``inotifywait`` on Linux

* ``wait_on`` on FreeBSD

Check whether the right dependency is already installed on your system before

launching the script.

Install

=======

Once you have ``onchange`` script downloaded and placed somewhere handy, you

can call it directly::

    bash /path/of/onchange/onchange.sh ...

or even better, you can create an alias for it::

    alias oc="bash ~/workspace/onchange/onchange.sh"

Examples

========

If you are writing a Latex document, and you want to automatically create the

dvi/pdf output each time you save the source document, you can just run::

    cd /path/of/your/precious/article

    oc gmake

If you want to launch the testsuite of your project each time you edit a file

in order to check if the lastest modifications broke something::

    cd /path/of/your/project

    oc command-to-launch-the-testsuite