Autorun allows you to run arbitrary commands when an inotify event happens on a file or inside of a directory.
autorun [--file|-f <filenames>] [--dir|-d <dirnames>] <cmd>
--help|-h display this message
--version|-v current version
--file|-f name of the files whose events will trigger <cmd>
--dir|-d all events on files and directories inside <dirnames> will trigger <cmd>
(autorun will watch . by default)
<cmd> the command that will be run when an event is detected
For example:
autorun --file autorun.cpp meson.build config.h.in -- ninja -C build
autorun --dir test -- echo "An event occured inside test directory"Any of the following commands will trigger the command <cmd>:
echo "// 10" >> autorun.cpp
mkdir test/d
touch test/d/f
echo 10 > test/d/f$ git clone https://github.com/CourrierGui/autorun
$ cd autorun
$ meson setup build
$ ninja -C build
# ninja -C build install