Watchman: Execute a command when something changes

Post by hamparawa » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 5:17 AM UTC

damagednoob wrote: post #74

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #25

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Also not to be confused with watchdog and it's command watchmedo, which is what I thought this was when I first read the headline. I don't know what the differences are, but I use watchdog to restart my local celery workers when I make changes. It's scripted out so I don't ever use the command directly. https://pypi.org/project/watchdog/ https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog EDIT: Now I'm wondering how often I mis…

Also not to be confused with watchexec (my tool of choice for executing commands on file changes): https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec

Post by Wherecombinator » Thu, Oct 06, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

MengerSponge wrote: post #78

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #65

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Microsoft, via the analytics on GitHub.

Ok, but then who watches the watchmen watcher?

Post by crodjer » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 6:11 AM UTC

Post by crodjer » Fri, Oct 07, 2022, 6:19 AM UTC

bin_bash wrote: post #22

this project hasn't had a commit in 8 years and only has a handful of stars. It confusingly shares the name with a much more popular tool from Meta—though the use case is slightly different. There are other much more popular tools that do the same thing, like entr, watchexec, and nodemon. Why is this posted?