Nice. I've been using yardman that's written for NodeJS and Crow written in Go. Nice to have something that's just bash.
Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
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Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#52For those use-cases I use entr ( https://github.com/clibs/entr ). In what sense does watchman differ to it? Didn't see anything related to this at first glance :-)
OP did say he did this for learning purpose.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#53What does this add to inotifywait? That does exactly the same as this project, which uses inotifywait to reimplement inotifywait. For example: dnf install inotify-tools or apt-get install inotify-tools
It looks like a simple bash wrapper around inotifywait to provide a simpler interface for a subset of the functionality. You don’t have to remember any
flags.
Not super useful, but not useless.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#54Is there a similar tool that can trigger a command when the output of command changes or the stdout has some kind of string?
I understand this is shell script territory, but a cross-platform tool would be ideal.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#55I wrote something very similar.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#56Not to be confused with Facebook’s file watch daemon, also names watchman, which does the same sort of thing but is more complicated. There’s a bunch of tools that integrate Facebook’s watchman for more efficient change tracking. Advantages of Facebook’s watchman: 1. Implements efficient file system event watches on macOS and Windows 2. IPC/daemon system reduces resource use because overlapping watches/triggers don’t…
Also support for other OS's - like Windows.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#57Not to be confused with Facebook’s file watch daemon, also names watchman, which does the same sort of thing but is more complicated. There’s a bunch of tools that integrate Facebook’s watchman for more efficient change tracking. Advantages of Facebook’s watchman: 1. Implements efficient file system event watches on macOS and Windows 2. IPC/daemon system reduces resource use because overlapping watches/triggers don’t…
Also support for other OS's - like Windows.
I have just used some Power Shell scripts for stuff like this in the past on Windows.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#58Not to be confused with Facebook’s file watch daemon, also names watchman, which does the same sort of thing but is more complicated. There’s a bunch of tools that integrate Facebook’s watchman for more efficient change tracking. Advantages of Facebook’s watchman: 1. Implements efficient file system event watches on macOS and Windows 2. IPC/daemon system reduces resource use because overlapping watches/triggers don’t…
If you sign up for notifications on both github projects, you can watch the watchmen.
But then, who watches the watcher?
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#59If you like python or work on mac/win/linux, you might like https://github.com/samuelcolvin/watchfiles
Uses rust for performance, and is usable from the terminal or from python.
Re: Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
#60I wrote a similar tool for macOS, using libdispatch.