https://github.com/sahilrajput03/watchall

A custom watch and run facility based on inotifywait, for linux and macos.
https://github.com/sahilrajput03/watchall

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A custom watch and run facility based on inotifywait, for linux and macos.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sahilrajput03/watchall
• Owner: sahilrajput03
• Created: 2022-01-07T18:12:06.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-08T09:46:27.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-09T17:56:34.129Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# README

This all is inspired from Stackoveflow's answer [here](https://superuser.com/a/181543/776589).

## Goal:

- To make a service similar to [`nodemon`](https://github.com/remy/nodemon) so nobody needs to install node just for the file watching service.

- Since the only dependency is [`inotifywait`](https://www.google.com/search?q=inotifywait) so we are customise this utility as I want specifically.

## Usage:

`watchAll -h` or `watch --help` also shows below help message.

```bash

 watchAll node Program.js

watchAll bash Program.sh

watchAll python Program.py

watchAll javac Program.java

```

## Todo

- Add `./watchall node app.js` facility by checking if the argument includes the extension .sh to identify if its bash script.

- Add a debug mode i.e., `-d` so the help logs will be printed in that case only.

- Add a `-f` flag to watch only for that file only, i.e., currently I am using `-r` in `inotifywait` to watch over current directory and subdirectories recursively.

- Add exception to ignore watching for the `node_modules` by default.